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five to ten miles in width, of great fertility and which, in the month of 
May, is almost one unbroken field of waving grain. This plain is swept 
are filled, without the slightest apprehension o er. No thunder 
ever disturbs the serenity of the sky, These delicious valleys are indeed 
ens west. 
_ Besides these three climates in California, that of the coast, that of the 
Interior, and that of the small valleys which lie among the scattered 
the altitude. 
__ +hese are the summer climates., In the winter there is no perceptible 
difference in the weather throughout California, except the very small dif- 
ference caused by the latitude, and the very great difference caused by the 
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England, or perhaps, it may be more nearly compared to our spring, from 
eriasadie of | March ‘to. ike middle of May. There is no snow, though 
_ Hosts are frequent. Near San Francisco, peas are planted in October, and 
_ Strawberries are to be had every day in the year. Still, ive has 
_ nown to form half an inch thick in a night. On the mountains, snow 
falls to a great depth. Indeed, the stories which are told of its depth 
Its accompanying dryness, does : gh nd 
probably attributable 8 ihe diminished force of the sun’s rays in his with- 
drawal to the south 
