TT9 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 cafion reservoir of 
water-works, and saw, at length (having failed on all 
former visits), that huge Madrofia (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- 
