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the lowest (14°) being at Gilroy, Santa Clara County, at an elevation of 261 

 feel above sea level, and 16 at Ravenna, Los Angeles County, at an eleva- 

 tion of 2,358 feet. A glance at the column of average Winter temperature 



will show what an excellent and hiirh mean 



average 



is shown in Santa 



Barbara and Los Angeles Counties, far excelling in salubrity the far- 

 famed Winter resorts of the great riviera of Italy, which has so Lately 

 been shaken by severe earthquake shocks. There is not a place in Santa 

 Barbara or Los Angeles Counties (until an elevation of 1,000 feet has been 

 reached) but what exceeds from 3° to 6° in its mean average Winter tem- 

 perature that of any place in Italy. 



