The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
FROM ULTIMA THULE.
BY j. W. HANSON, DID.


of our great country is San Diego
The immense county of which it is
the capital, extends from the Pacific
coast to the Colorado river, and is
commonwealth in itself 1t has an
area of 8.40O square miles, or 5,000,-
900 acres, being $50 square miles lar
ger than Massachusetts,, or SIT miles
larger than Connecticut, Rhode Is
land and Delaware combined. 1t has
IS miles of sea- coast, and the surface
varies in altitude from 5000 feet
above to 300 feet below the level of
the sea. 1t has every kind of climate
except the tropical, from the almost
perpetual winter of the Sierra sum-
NIT, to the Sahara heats Of the desert;
and the soil ranges from the Edenic
valleys where the orange and lemon
luxuriate, to the barren sands of the
Colorado "tophet."
Glorietta Bay, or San Diego Har-
Dor, is next to San Francisco Bay in
size, but is second to no sheet of wa
ter on the Atlantic or the Pacific for
beauty. 1t is the only natural harbor
besides San Francisco Bay for ZOO
miles of coast, and on the completion
of the Nicaragua canal must become
one of the worlds thronged seaports.
1t is thirteen miles long, has six
square miles of available anchorage,
channel 800 yards wide, and 92S
feet deep at high tide. Boston, Mo
bile, Charleston and New Orleans
have each eighteen feet, Philadelphia
eighteen and one-half and New York
twenty three feet, five inches).
The beautiful city of San Diego
| (St. James, is located along the
shores of that bay, twelve miles from
the Mexican line, ON slope running
back gently to mesa (mayzah) 500
feet above the blue expanse at its
feet, and commands from the highest
elevations one of the finest marine
views in the world. The purple
mountain islands San Clements and
Santa Catalina bound the view; the
blue Pacific spreads it's vastness be-
tween; the lovely bay at ones feet;
the Coronado Peninsula and Mann
moth Hotel-the largest, and one of
the most beautiful on earth, and the
city itself, with its 10000 population,
make picture rarely equalled, much
less surpassed. Dudley Warner doc s
not exaggerate when he says:
"This site commands one of the
most remarkable views in the Access
sible civilized world. One of the
three or four really great prospects
which the traveller can recall, aston
ishing in it's immensely, interesting in
its peculiar details. The general feat
ures are the great ocean, blue, fecked
with sparkling, breaking wayelets,
and the wide curving coast line, ris-
ing into mesas, foothills, ranges on
ranges of mountains, the family seen
snow peaks Ct San Bernardino and
San Jacinto to the Cuyamacas, and
the fiat top of Table Mountain in
Mexico. Directly under us on one
side of us are the fields of Kelp,
where the whales come to feed in
winter, and on the other is point of
sand or Coronado Beach, where
flock of pelicans have assembled after
their days fishing. The perfect cres-
cent of the ocean beach is seen, the
singular formation of North and
South Coronado Beach, the entrance
to the harbor along Point Iona, and
its lighthouse and the spacious inner
bay. on which lie San Diego and Ma
tional City, with lowlands and heights
outside, sprinkled with houses, gar
dens, orchards and vineyards. 1t is
certainly one of the loveliest pros
poets in the world, and worth long
travel to see"
Descending to the word famed Cor
onado is wonderful experience. 1t
is built on the very verge of the sea.
The tumbling surf ON miles of beach,
on one side of the enormous caravan
sary is never quiet and never silent,
and on the other side flowers are al
ways in bloom, while in the patio
(pah-tee- o. or court are the more deli
cate plants and flowers. And the
wonder of it is that the beauty of
land and sea are always to be enjoyed.
The fairest views of other lands are
frequently obscured by rain or cloud,
and often impossible by reason of
storm or cold. But here the equable
climate makes almost every day en-
joyable. Think of 1.-THE govern
ment records show that in ten years
there were only 120 days with the
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