The Mediterranean shores of America : Southern California : its climatic, physical, and meteorological conditions / by P.C. Remondino.

Date:
1892
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Credit: The Mediterranean shores of America : Southern California : its climatic, physical, and meteorological conditions / by P.C. Remondino. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    consisting of the various colored flags and lanterns that are generally used at sea-ports in the rest of the United States, were returned to the Washington office after having laid here for eight years without ever having been once used. The region has not one lightning-rod to the writer's knowledge; and neither linen dusters, fur coats, sun-shades, or any other stormy weather, heat or cold preventives are here necessary. The enchanted isles of the dreams of our free and careless youthful imagination have here their actual earthly reality; the paradise, as far as climate can make it, is in this favored region. Here disease and death may be kept at bay and life enjoyed to the end of the term of man's natural existence. Again, persons are in the habit of speaking of the Southern California climate as they would of that of one of the Sandwich Islands, or of that of some other con- stricted locality, when, in fact, it would be as relational to speak of the climate of the north of Italy as a whole, and give to the Valley of Aosta, that of Susa, or to the hills of the Apennines a like climate to that of the Riviera or of Venice, and where Genoa—although on the same shores with Mentone—possesses an alto- gether inferior medical climate. Southern California has' fully as varied a climatology as that of the north of Italy; it may even be said to possess more extremes of condition; but, with these ex- tremes, it enjoys the anomalous condition of having these extremes alike favorable to health and long life—just the reverse of the Italian extremes. Southern California has six distinct classes of cli- mates, all having a therapeutic value and application, as follows:— 1. A purely insular climate.