Most Of This Class,
From All I Can Learn, Come Here Only To Die, And Surely It Is Better
To Die Comfortably At Home, Avoiding The Thousand Discomforts Of
Travel, At A Time When They Are So Heard To Bear.
It is indeed
pitiful to see so many invalids, already on the verge of the grave,
making a painful way to quack climates, hoping to change age to youth,
and the darkening twilight of their day to morning.
No such health-fountain has been found, and this climate, fine as it is, seems, like
most others, to be adapted for well people only. From all I could
find out regarding its influence upon patients suffering from
pulmonary difficulties, it is seldom beneficial to any great extent in
advanced cases. The cold sea winds are less fatal to this class of
sufferers than the corresponding winds further north, but,
notwithstanding they are tempered on their passage inland over warm,
dry ground, they are still more or less injurious.
The summer climate of the fir and pine woods of the Sierra Nevada
would, I think, be found infinitely more reviving; but because these
woods have not been advertised like patent medicines, few seem to
think of the spicy, vivifying influences that pervade their fountain
freshness and beauty.
XI
The San Gabriel Mountains[13]
After saying so much for human culture in my last, perhaps I may now
be allowed a word for wildness - the wildness of this southland, pure
and untamable as the sea.
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