Southern California . THE OUTHKRN CALIFORNIA is byno means one continuous gardenof fruits and flowers. Extend-ing diagonally across the land from north-west to southeast lies the San BernardinoMountain range, and in proportion as its coast-wise slope is an earthly paradise, the land whichit hems in from the sea is a vast and dreary vain the moisture-laden clouds of the Pacificattempt to glide over the snowy summits of San Antonioand San Bernardino ; or, if perchance they do reach theenchanted realm of the desert, they are generally dissi-pated into imperceptible vapor by the
Southern California . THE OUTHKRN CALIFORNIA is byno means one continuous gardenof fruits and flowers. Extend-ing diagonally across the land from north-west to southeast lies the San BernardinoMountain range, and in proportion as its coast-wise slope is an earthly paradise, the land whichit hems in from the sea is a vast and dreary vain the moisture-laden clouds of the Pacificattempt to glide over the snowy summits of San Antonioand San Bernardino ; or, if perchance they do reach theenchanted realm of the desert, they are generally dissi-pated into imperceptible vapor by the heat of the desert is a region of arid plains and barren moun-tains. The soil is of sand incrusted with alkali, and themountains are bold, rocky and inhospitable, frequentlyin the shape of abrupt, sharply pointed cones with milesof disintegrated rock, known as talus, sloping away fromtheir bases. Again, great boulders are piled in chaoticheaps, wrenched and wracked by the elements, worn bythe action of waves upon this pre
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