Identifier: americanaunivers03newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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thing else in theUnion. The paragraph on population showssomething of the disproportionate settling-up ofthe southern end of the State — an entire re-versal of the balance which obtained for nearly40 years, during which the population was over-whelmingly about the Bay, and San Francisco o
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CALIFORNIA was practically California, socially, politically,and financially.. About San Francisco there is a steady andbrisk wind movement, flowing in through thenarrow gap of the (jolden Gate. In SouthernCalifornia, while there is daily ebl) and flow ofair-currents (in tlie morning from otY the sea,and at night down from the mountains), a realwind is very rare. Hurricanes and cyclones areabsolutely unknown in the State. Despite tliegreat htat of the deserts, and high mercurysometimes recorded in the valleys, the drynessof the atmosphere renders it harmless, and sun-stroke is unknown. Seasonal diseases, typhoids,malarias, and pernicious fevers, summer diseasesof children, gastric or hepatic diseases, arc rare.Mean summer temperature San Francisco (X)°;winter mean 51°; greatest daily range temper-ature Los Angeles 29°, as against 69 for Bos-ton. The modern migration to California hasbeen largely attracted by this unique and hospit-able climate, free from the dangerous heats ofsumme

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