770 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1885, 



Western Department in place of McDowell, and in the 

 choice house the latter built) and Mrs. Pope (she an 

 old acquaintance) ; then we went over to San Rafael, 

 a night with the Barbers, and next day a drive up 

 behind Mount Tamalpais to the canon reservoir of 

 water-works, and saw, at length (having failed on all 

 former visits), that huge Madrona (Arbutus Men- 

 ziesii), like one of those great and wide-spreading oaks 

 you used to admire. Next day to Monterey, which we 

 saw nothing of on that hurried visit eight years ago, 

 when our single day was sacrificed to Hayden's insane 

 desire to see a coal mine on a bare hill ! Now there 

 are eighteen miles of good drive around all Point 

 Pinos and through it, and Cupressus macrocarpa on 

 the seaside verge, noble and picturesque old trees, 

 and no lack of young ones, a little back, and grand 

 sea and shore views. 



On the other side of the town, in a grove of great 

 live oaks and Pinus insignis mixed, made into a beau- 

 tiful park and park gardens, with a separate railway 

 station in the grounds, is the crack hotel of the West- 

 ern coast, the work of the Pacific Railway Company, 

 which has also bought and appended the whole of the 

 pine grove, five or six miles long and two or three 

 wide, thus preserving Pinus insignis and the cypress, 

 the latter much needing it. 



Mr. and Mrs. Alvord, knowing our visit was to be, 

 had telegraphed for best rooms, and joined us unex- 

 pectedly ; took us on the long drive the next day, 

 with four fine horses. . . . They showed us no end of 

 kind attention. 



At length we got off for a visit to Chico (leaving 

 Farlow to algologize at Santa Cruz, etc.), a quicker 

 way than before, a steam-ferry across Suisin Bay help- 



