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She tempered the heat of Summer by ocean-bearing breeze, and has 

 chained the cold of Winter on the summits of our mountain ranges. 

 The orchard groves of Sicily are equaled by the orchards of Los 

 Angeles. The tigs of Syria find their counterpart in the gardens of 

 San Jose. The vine bearing hills of France are more than matched 

 in several of her counties. The wheat growing plains of Illinois and 

 Iowa are surpassed in productiveness in our valleys, and the richness 

 of tlie delta of Egypt and of the bottom lands of the Mississippi can 

 be, by science aiding nature, rivaled in the San Joaquin Valley. 



Nature has done her share for California, and it but remains for 

 man to exert his energies to arrive at that degree of greatness which 

 now lies within the easy grasp of the State. \Vill he do it? 



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