Homes and happiness in the golden state of California; being a description of the empire state of the Pacific Coast, its inducements to native and ... its vast agricultural resources, its - Softcover

Truman, Benjamin Cummings

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ISBN 10: 1130784886 ISBN 13: 9781130784886

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... other part of Europe. Dijon is in the champagne district of France. Naples is the typical city of the south of peninsular Italy. These four places are fair representatives of the climates of France and Italy; they can make no claim to superiority when compared with California. Many of our towns have warmer winters, cooler summers, and less frost in the spring. All the attractions that the clear skies of Greece and Italy have had from remote times for the natives of the cloudy north are possessed in a superior degree by our State. As climatic evidence, the following table is presented, giving the results of observations at various points in California, as compared with some of the world's noted climates:--MEAN TEMPERATURE. The climates of Central California may be grouped into coast climate, climate of the interior valley, climate of the Sierra slope. The first has a small range of temperature, slight fogs, and sea breezes. The second has a greater summer temperature than on the coast, a dry northerly wind at times, and no fog. On the Sierra slopes, also northward in the Coast Range, the climate as we ascend approaches more and more to that of New England until we reach the snow line. In many counties thirty miles travel takes one from where oranges grow to where only hardy fruit trees prosper. The general features of these three climates of which we have spoken mingle or are interchanged, according as the valleys open toward the sea, or away from it, or slope northward or south. The minimum temperature generally of Ohio in January is 10 below zero, or 42 below the freezing point, or, as we say, 42 of frost--whereas most of the valleys of California do not have more than two degrees of frost, and many of them none at all. The mean temperature of Ohio in Jan...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130784886
• ISBN 13: 9781130784886
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 34