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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' 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: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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. Pescadero is in anarrow valley, about three miles from thefamous Pebble Beach, about 100 yards long,which gives it its chief attraction. Most home-like quarters and delightful cooking are found Rain falls only in the winter half of the year,and does not much exceed one-half of the amountin the same latitude on the Atlantic shore, andthe number of rainy days is very small, since itis apt to rain hard if it rains at all. The atmos-phere in winter is quite moist, and though it isseemingly dry in summer, during the long ab-sence of rain, pianos and furniture, and wood-work generally do not shrink as in many places,owing, doubtless, to the prevailing cool windsfrom the ocean. It is rarely cold enough forfrost; plumbers work needs no protection, andhot days are equally rare, occurring only whenthe summer ocean winds yield for two, or at mostthree days, to winds from over parched and heatedplains to the north. The air is rarely clear so asto reveal distinctly the outlines of hill and shore
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STREET SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO. at Swantons, and one will be taken to the beachand brought back from it at hours of his ownchoosing. At this beach one will linger andlinger, picking up finely-polished pebbles, manyof which are fit to be set as jewels. Pescaderomay be reached also by stage from Santa Cruz,and the ride along the coast is wild, interesting,unique and full of interest. The time requiredis a day, whether coming from San Francisco orSanta Cruz, and the same to return, and no onewill spend less than a day there, so that to seePescadero means three days, and there are fewmore enjoyable ways to spend so much time. Climate—The climate of San Francisco ispeculiar, and can not be described in a fewwords. It is equable on the whole, there beingmm great range of temperature, and the differencebetween that of winter and summer being small. across the bay, a misty haze like that of easternIndian summer, usually prevailing. After rains,and notably after frosts, and during the preva-l

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