ABSTRACT
California has been for many years regarded by Eastern people as this lady thought of the gallery of the Reverend Mr. Phydle D.D.'s church. It is generally acknowledged that some very respectable people live in California; but we who live on the Atlantic side of the continent are sorry for them, and do not doubt in our hearts that they would be only too glad to come over to us. Very few suspect that the Californians have the best of us, and that, so far from living ill a kind of rude exile, they enjoy, in fact, the finest climate, the
most fertile soil, the loveliest skies, the mildest winters, the most healthful region, in the whole United States. Califol"Dia has long passed with us in the East as a good-enough sort of country for over-adventurous young men; it is, in fact the best part of the American continent, either fot· health or for profitable and pleasant living in any industrious pursuit.
