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/ 'nitm, mid was prepared especially for that edition by the editorial staff of 



that paper: 



There is n<> State in the Union, no country upon the continent, no sec- 

 tion of country in any State, or geographical division of the continent, 

 that can compare with Northern and Central California for salubrity of 

 climate, healthfulness, variety of pleasing shadings in climate, or for attrac- 

 tive health-giving Summer and Winter resorts. We make this assertion 

 with full knowledge of the claims of all other sections, from Florida to 

 Southern California and from the Georgia coast to the Bay of San Diego. 



As we write, in the middle of Deeemher, the sun shines in a clear sky, 

 the earth is moist from recent rains, the plow is turning up the glad earth, 

 the air is balmy, the people upon the streets in attire that could ho worn 

 at the East only in early Summer or Autumn — in short, Winter in Califor- 

 nia is hut a Summer without its hot days. 



There are thirty-six counties from Monterey Bay north and east, that 

 presents resorts in Winter as well as Summer, that are perfect delights: 

 sanitariums where the invalids may grow strong and the strong augment 

 their strength, beneath cloudless skies, in balmy, genial air, and where 

 almost perennial Summer reigns. The chief Winter resort is, of course, 

 Del Monte, near the old town of Monterey, and on Monterey Bay. The 

 grounds constitute the finest improved private park in America, if not in 

 the world; the hotel, one of the largest ever erected in the country; the 

 beach baths of the best known to the coast, and the three great warm and 

 cold inclosed and roofed swimming baths the finest fitted on the continent. 

 The fifteen-mile drive about Del Monte is one of the chief charms. It is 

 one of the most delightful and picturesque in America. One begins and 

 ends the drive at the hotel, and takes in its course the bay shore, the 

 steamer wharf, Monterey village, whale fishery, Pacific Grove Retreat and 

 its wooded hills, the ocean shore, Point Pinto, Point Joe, and Moss Beaches, 

 Seal Rocks, Cypress Grove, Cypress Point, Camelo Bay, Pebble Beach, 

 Arch Rock, Pescadero Beach, the old Carmel Mission and its historic 

 church, and other points of interest, thus completing the circuit of the lit- 

 tle peninsula, where are compassed more varied scenery, more of natural 

 beauty, more objects of curiosity and inspiration than anywhere else upon 

 the shore line of the Pacific in California. 



CLIMATE. 



Del Monte has the combination of all the virtues of the California 

 climate, with the lowest possible minimum of features that would be dis- 

 advantageous to the more delicately constituted. At Del Monte, from 

 January to December, there is really neither Winter nor Summer, but what 

 at the East is known as Indian Summer. The following showing of mean 

 temperatures will illustrate this: 



Jan. 



July. 



Monterey (Del Monte) 



San Francisco 



Los Angeles 



Sacramento - _ 



Stockton 



Vallejo 



Fort Yuma 



Cincinnati 



New York - 



New Orleans 



Naples 



Honolulu -. 



Genoa 



Jacksonville, Fla 



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 55 

 46 

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 46 

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