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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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weather, and in many places a guar-antee of no thunderstorms. Offshore flows the Japanese Gulf Stream,which, with the ocean, modifies the entireregion, as the Gulf Stream affects England,though some students of weather denythis; the people, however, believe it be-cause it is mild. The result is, the moun-tains of the State, from north to south,have a real winter, but the valleys live ina perennial spring or summer. It doesnot rain from May to November, so thereis a wet and dry season, and when theEast is frozen up, California of the lowlandsis vivid with greens, and wildflowers ofevery hue and tone convert the land intoa garden. In a word, the climate of all Californiais much like that of Italy and the Riviera,with this exception: it is not so cold inwinter nor so hot in summer, hence is reallyremarkable and particularly adapted tothose who desire an outdoor life all theyear round without ice and snow. Inwinter the country below three thousandfeet looks like the East in June or July.
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Mountain Scenery in Northern California. The Siskiyou mountains.

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