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Title: Beauties of California
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Griswold, Norman W
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Publisher: San Francisco, H. S. Crocker & co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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BEAUTIES OF CALIFORNIA. THE Ne^vv^port of the Pacific. yy The old seaside town of Santa Cruz is situated upon the Bay ofMonterey, eighty-five miles from San Francisco, and is a favorite bath-ing place and general summer resort of the coast, and has been justlycalled the Newport of the Pacific. A climate so even and salubriousas to permit surf bathing from January first to December thirty-first,must ncessarily become a fashionable resort. The attractions of thistown and vicinity are almost too numerous to mention. Possessing,as it does, a fine beach almost level and beautifully white, with south-ern exposure, supplied with pleasant sunny bath-houses and all thenecessary accompaniments, together with a mild but bracing climate,and comparatively free from fogs and cold winds, makes an attractivespot for invalids in winter and summer. So many sunny days allow-ing out-door exercise is a wonderful boon to the sick. Indeed if themany thousand invalids of the north and east, who are confined

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