Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba (1883) (14779098194)

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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba

Year: 1883 (1880s)

Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928

Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel

Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers

Contributing Library: Brown University Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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upon Monterey. Two old iron guns stand plantedas posts at the corners of the dwelling. In front of othersare some walks neatly made of the verterbrse of whales,taken by the Monterey Whaling Company. The com-pany is a band of hardy, weather-beaten men, chiefly Por-tuguese, of the Azores, who have a lookout station on thehill by the ruined fort, and a barracks lower down. Theypursue their avocation from the shore in boats, withplenty of adventure and no small profit. Monterey, which is now not even a county seat, wasthe Spanish capital of the province from the time it wasthought necessary to have a capital. The missionary fa-ther, Junipero Serra, came here from Mexico in the year1770. It was next a Mexican capital under eleven suc-cessive governors. Then it became the American capital,the first port of entry, the scene of the first ConstitutionalConvention of the State, and an outfitting point for thesouthern mines. Money in those early days was so THE VIXTAGE SEASON, AND MONTEREY. 369

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370 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. plenty, I have heard tell, that store-keepers hardlystopped to count it, but threw it under the counter inbushelfuls. A secret belief in the ultimate revival of Montereyseems always to survive in certain quarters, like that inthe reappearance of Barbarossa from the KylfhauserBerg, or the restoration of the Jews. Breakwaters havebeen ambitiously talked of, and it is said that the baycould be made a harbor and shipping-point and the rivalof San Francisco. The only step toward such revival as yet is a fine hotel,built by the Southern Pacific railroad, which may makeit, instead of Santa Cruz, across the Bay, the leading sea-side resort. TJioiiofh not so o-randiose a direction as someothers, this is really the one in which the peculiar condi-tions of the old capital are most likely to tell. The sum-mer boarder can get a tangible pleasure out of its historicremains and traditions of greatness, though they be goodfor nothing else. The Hotel del Monte is

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