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rain. St. Helena very nearly resembles Mentone, being two 

 degrees warmer in January, four degrees warmer in July, and 

 having about seven inches more rain. 



There are, however, extensive districts in California for 

 which we have no meteorological tables, and some of these 

 may hereafter come into higher favor with consumptives than 

 any of those to which they now throng. Among these, Pope 

 and Berreyesa Valleys, east of Mount St. Helena, and the head 

 of the Salinas, Saticoy, and Cuyama Rivers, between latitudes 

 34 and 35 30', deserve special attention. These valleys are 

 west of the Diablo ridge, but are protected against the ocean 

 winds and fogs by a distance of about thirty miles covered 

 with mountains, beyond which the air is dry and the climate 

 warm. 



Special attention should be given to the fact that Dr. J. H. 

 Bennet, who first brought Mentone into notice as a health re- 

 sort for consumptives, and whose book, " Winter in the South 

 of Europe," is our authority, strictly orders his patients to 

 leave Mentone in the spring, because the summer is too warm 

 and moist. 



94. San Rafael and St. Jlelena.The places most in fa- 

 vor as sanitariums in California, are San Rafael, St. Helena, 

 Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego. 



San Rafael is fifteen miles north of San Francisco, and eight 

 miles from the ocean, and has less fog and wind than any 

 other town near the edge of San Francisco Bay. It is not 

 equal in the dryness of its atmosphere and the scantiness of 

 rainfall to the southern coast, but it has the great advantage 

 that its residents can spend five or six hours in the middle of 

 the day in San Francisco, and thus attend to business there. 

 A thermometrical record shows that the mean temperature of 

 January, is 50 at 9 A. M., 58 at 12 M; 60 at 3 p. M., and 51 

 at 6 P. M. ; while in July the means for the same hours are 59, 

 65, 68 and 66 respectively. These figures not having been 

 kept at the times usually observed by meteorologists, cannot 

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