Identifier: greaterbritainre01dilk (find matches)
Title: Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1843-1911
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the three kingdoms.Every useful mineral, every kind of fertile soil, every varietyof heljiful climate, are to be found within the State. Thereare in the Union forty-five such States or Territories, with anaverage area equal to that of Britain. Between the Pacific and the snows of the Sierra are thethree great tracts, each with its soil and character. On theslopes of the Sierra are the forests of giant timber, the shel-tered valleys, and the gold-fields in which I spent my first weekin California. ISText comes the great hot plain of Sacramento,where, with irrigation, all the best fruits of the tropics growluxuriantly, where water for irrigation is plentiful, and thePacific breeze will raise it. Round the valley are vast tractsfor sheep and wheat, and on the Contra Costas are millions ofacres of wild oats growing on the best of lands for cattle,while the slopes are covered with young vines. Between theContra Costa range and the sea is a winterless strip, possessing 196 Greater Britain.
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EL-CAPITAN, TOSEMITE VALLEY. for table vegetables and flowers the finest soil and climate inthe world. The story goes that Californian boys, Avhen askedif they believe in a future state, reply, Guess so; California.Whether San Francisco will grow to be a second Liver-pool or New York, is an all-absorbing question to those wholive on the Pacific shores, and one not without an interest anda moral for ourselves. New York has waxed rich and hugemainly because she is so placed as to command one of the bestharbors on the coast of a country which exports enormously California. 197 of breadstufts. Liverpool has thrived as one of the shipping-ports for the manufacturers of the northern coal counties ofEngland. San Francisco Bay, as the best harbor south ofPuget Sound, is, and will remain, the centre of the export-trade of the Pacific States in wool and cereals. If coal isfound in plenty in the Golden State, population will increase,manufactures spring up, and the export of wrought articlestake

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