Produced by Bryan Ness, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [Illustration: SANTA BARBARA.] OUR ITALY BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER _Author of Their Pilgrimage, Studies in the South and West, A Little Journey in the World ... With Many Illustrations_ [Illustration] _NEW YORK_ _HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE_ Copyright, 1891, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. HOW OUR ITALY IS MADE 1 II. OUR CLIMATIC AND COMMERCIAL MEDITERRANEAN 10 III. EARLY VICISSITUDES.--PRODUCTIONS.--SANITARY CLIMATE 24 IV. THE WINTER OF OUR CONTENT 42 V. HEALTH AND LONGEVITY 52 VI. IS RESIDENCE HERE AGREEABLE? 65 VII. THE WINTER ON THE COAST 72 VIII. THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.--LAND AND PRICES 90 IX. THE ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION 99 X. THE CHANCE FOR LABORERS AND SMALL FARMERS 107 XI. SOME DETAILS OF THE WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT 114 XII. HOW THE FRUIT PERILS WERE MET.--FURTHER DETAILS OF LOCALITIES 128 XIII. THE ADVANCE OF CULTIVATION SOUTHWARD 140 XIV. A LAND OF AGREEABLE HOMES 146 XV. SOME WONDERS BY THE WAY.--YOSEMITE.--MARIPOSA TREES.--MONTEREY 148 XVI. FASCINATIONS OF THE DESERT.--THE LAGUNA PUEBLO 163 XVII. THE HEART OF THE DESERT 177 XVIII. ON THE BRINK OF THE GRAND CAÑON.--THE UNIQUE MARVEL OF NATURE 189 APPENDIX 201 INDEX 219 ILLUSTRATIONS. SANTA BARBARA _Frontispiece_ PAGE MOJAVE DESERT 3 MOJAVE INDIAN 4 MOJAVE INDIAN 5 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF RIVERSIDE 7 SCENE IN SAN BERNARDINO 11 SCENES IN MONTECITO AND LOS ANGELES 13 FAN-PALM, LOS ANGELES 16 YUCCA-PALM, SANTA BARBARA 17 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, RIVERSIDE 21 AVENUE LOS ANGELES 27