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in winter, seem to impose serious difficulties in the 

 way of agricultural prosperity, while the many and 

 decided advantages resulting from the mildness of 

 winter, and the bright, clear weather of summer, are 

 not appreciated. These will appear when I come to 

 speak of the productions of California. We ought 

 not to be surprised at the dislike which the immigrants 

 frequently express to the climate. It is so unlike 

 that from which they come, that they cannot readily 

 appreciate its advantages, or become reconciled to its 

 extremes of dry and wet. 



"If a native of California were to go to New 

 England in winter, and see the ground frozen and 

 covered with snow, the streams with ice, and find 

 himself in a temperature many degrees colder than 

 he had ever felt before, he would probably be as much 

 surprised that people could or would live in so in- 

 hospitable a region, as any immigrant ever has been 

 at what he has seen or felt in California. 



u So much are our opinions influenced by early im- 

 pressions, the vicissitudes of the seasons with which 

 we are familiar, love of country, home, and kindred, 

 that we ought never to hazard a hasty opinion when 

 we come in contact with circumstances entirely differ- 

 ent from those to which we have all our lives been 

 accustomed." 



These remarks explain the reason of the diversity 

 of opinion expressed by persons who have visited 

 California, in a very satisfactory manner. The Italian 

 climate of Los Angeles has received the praises of 

 nearly all who have visited that city or its neighbor- 

 hood. The themometrical observations detailed in 

 the above account seem to prove that much of the un- 

 favorable opinions expressed concerning the climate is 



