Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba (1883) (14594748870)

Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University



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THE VIXTAGE SEAS OX, AND MOXTEREY. 3t:
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CLIFFS AND FOREST AT MONTEREY. In other respects the place seems nearly as desirable atone time of the year as another. The qnaint town isalways there; and the wild rocks, with their gossipinggulls and pelicans; and the drives through the extensiveforests. There are varieties of pine and cypress—thelatter like the Italian stone-pine—peculiar to Monterey. 374 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST FROVINCES. The more venerable trees, hoary with age and hangingmoss, are contorted into all the fantastic shapes of Dores Inferno. They grow by preference on the most savagepoints of rock, and the wild breakers toss handfuls ofspray up to them high in the air, in amity and greeting. Along the beach on this far-away point of the PacificOcean we find a Chinese fishing settlement. VeritableCelestials, without a word of English among them, havepasted the usual crimson papers of hieroglyphics on shan-ty residences. They burn tapers before their gods on thequay, and fish for a living in just such junks and sm