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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s over hundreds of milesof dry, scorched plains, it is like the breath ofa furnace, and the mercury rises to 110 and 120degrees in the shade. The origin of the name California is disputed,but some say it is from two Si^anish words,caliente fomalo. This seems plausible, forthe words mean heated furnace. The extremedrvness of the climate enables men and animalsto endure the heat surprisingly. Sunstrokesare almost wholly unknown in this basin, andperhaps have never occurred in San Francisco.Horses travel fifty or sixty miles a day with themercury at 100 degrees or more. In Janiiary,1854, the mercury fell in San Francisco to twenty-five degrees, the coldest day known since 1850.The greatest extreme of heat since 1850 was inSeptember, 1852, ninety-eight degrees. Themercury rarely reaches ninety, and only duringa north wind, and for a short season. Not manyof the children born in San Francisco have seensnow fall there. The winters are like the Indiansummer of Southern Pennsylvania, except a
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l.-Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove. 2.-Three Graces, Calaveras Group. 3.-Scenes in Mariposa Grove.4.-Trunk of Big Tree, Mariposa Grove. 5.-Natural Arch, Big Tree, Mariposa Grove. 6.-Calaveras Group, Big Trees. TME ^^^€IFI€ WQW^im. 295 clearer atmospliere. Sometimes nearly all therain falls at night, and the season resembles thatof Southern Alabama in Aviuter. The coolsummers and warm winters are not excelled inany other country. The need of blankets on aSlimmer night is probably due to the rapidradiation Avhich the clear atmosphere ijermits.The season of fogs in San Francisco is fromJune to August, when the trade winds arestrong. The consumptive shovild carefullyavoid exposure to these. The dampness of theSlimmer fogs is not conducive to perspiration,but aggravating to rheumatic and neuralgicaffections. On the Sierras, from ten to one hundred feetof snow maybe found. The chill of this comesdown over the interior basin in winter, especiallyin the northern part of the State. In Southe

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