Image: Outing (1885) (14596471348)

Description: Identifier: outing15newy (find matches) Title: Outing Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.) Contributing Library: Tisch Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: a-teau, surrounded by lesser hills and by achain of sunny valleys dedicated to thegrape and the olive. In height this pla-teau ranges from i,6oo to 2,000 feet, andit was originally clothed with a densepine, fir and redwood forest, much ofwhich remains and from which severalstreams flow. There are many cottagesfor summer or winter residence, built byEastern and San Francisco people, andseveral good hotels. The drives extendalong the four or five thousand acres ofthe mountain, over its adjacent ridges,and across the lovely surrounding val-leys. Calistoga and St. Helena are theleading resorts of the Napa Valley be-low. A gentleman who has spent sev-eral winters at La Jota Villa, on the topof the mountain, writes that the noontemperature ranges from 60° to 85. Thenights are cool, but frostless. Duringsome winters there have been one ortwo days of snow—not more than an mchfalling—just enough to give the chil-dren fun and make rabbit and deer tracksperceptible. There are many vineyards Text Appearing After Image: 354 OUTING FOR FEBRUARY, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Outing (1885) (14596471348)
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