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Show 208 1870-' 71. Wl- TS. Mean of spring 60° 60° Meanof summer 69° 67° Mean of autumn 65° 62° Meanof winter .• 53° 53.5C Yearly mean 60.2° 60.6° In a series of observations extending over three years and a half we find, from the same authority, that on the coldest day the mercury stood at 42°, and on the warmest it ran up to 90°. On two occasions ( due t « extensive fires in the neighboring mountains) it reached 100°. This last extreme must, of course, be eliminated from any table of normal temperatures of the place. " Comparing the hygrometer and thermometer for one year, from September, 1872, to September, 1873, we find the average difference between them for one month to be: September, 4° ; October, 3.5°; November, 5.6°; December, 3.75°; January, 3°; February, 3.25° ; March, 3.50°; April, 4.20° ; May, 5.5°; June, 6.02°; July, 4.25° ; August, 5.75°. The average difference for the year is 4.09°." From Truman's Semi- Tropical California I obtain the elements for the following table of temperature at Los Angeles: Month. February April May Jane July August September November Sunrise. 0 40 41 40 53 56 61 66 65 61 59 49 47 9 a. m. o 55 56 60 66 65 70 74 75 75 74 67 57 3 p. m. o 64 64 • 69 73 71 77 80 81 85 79 69 62 9 p. m. o 50 48 54 57 60 64 67 69 67 62 57 51 Monthly mean. 0 52.25 53.25 55.75 63.85 63. CO 6a oo 74.25 72.50 73.00 68.50 6a 50 5125 . The above observations were made by Mr. Broderick for the year 1871. Figures from San Diego are very meager All I actually know of the climate is, its January temperature is 52°, and its July 72°. The annual rain- fall at Los Angeles is 18 inches; at Santa Barbara 15 inches; at San Diego 10 inches. I will also extract the following from Semi- Tropical California: " The deaths for each one thousand inhabitants in several of the leading cities of the United States are presented in the following tableland the comparison cannot fail to be suggestive: New York New Orleans... Los Angeles.... San Diego Santa Barbara. 37 13 13 13 Saint Louis 21 San Francisco 21 Boston 24 Chicago 24 Philadelphia 25 Baltimore 27 This table does not inform us whether the statistics include the host of consumptives who visit the three places last named or not. If it does these they are still, in spite of their favorable showing, charged with a percentage of mortality that is not inherent in the climate. July 13 we broke up camp on Moore's Island and started for Fort Tejon. I woold take this opportunity to state our profound obligations to the proprietors of the land on which we had been seeking for Indian antiquities, the brothers Moore; also to Mr. Joseph Park and to the Rev. Stephen Bower, the latter of whom was with us most ot the time, and to whose active assistance, along with that of Mr. Park, we are so largely indebted. According to our orders we were to have reached Fort Tejon by crossing the monnfr ains over the trail directly from Santa Barbara. After a fair trial this was found utterly impracticable, on account of our mules being so greatly overloaded. We were then driven to take the. trail via Cassitas Pass to the Ojai, and thence to the San** Clara Valley, a little below Camulas ranch; hence left the coast at Rincon, 16 nules south of Santa Barbara. We camped for the night at a little canon on the southern side of Cassitas Pass. The forage was poor, owing both to the presence of sheep * od to the unusually dry season. There were two small but well- cultivated ranches in tjje canon. The corn, though there was not much of it, looked extremely well, and the proprietor of one of the farms asserted that whatever would grow at Los Angeles oonlfl |