46 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 
and have no ambition to encounter one upon the central des- 
ert.. Luckily, they are not very common in the severest aspect ; 
in summer, quite rare.” 
Note.—The chief writers upon the Meteorology of California have been, 
Dr. Henry Gibbons, of Alameda, and Dr. T. M. Logan, of Sacramento, whose 
writings have been published in the books of the Smithsonian Institute, and 
in the newspapers of San Francisco and Sacramento. 
