AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOREST VIEW—THE FOOT HILLS OF CALIFORNIA.

it on good authority—that the thermometer
never has been known to mark more than
four degrees below zero in the city of
Georgetown. Situated as it is, this city, at
the head of the valley, walled in on three
sides by lofty mountains, which protect it
from the wind and storms, the air is of
great purity, and the climate mild.

The first discovery of silver in this re-
gion, was made by James Huff, Sept. 14th,
1864; the location is about eight miles
above Georgetown.

The Georgetown people boast of a bit of
scenery, about ten minutes walk from the
hotel, called the “Devil’s Gate” and
“ Bridal Vail.”. Now what the “Bridal
Vail” has got todo with the “ Devil’s
Gate, we never could understand. Are
they synonymous words ?

GREEN Laxe—is 2 1-2 miles distant
from Georgetown, reached by an easy car-
riage road that winds up the side of the
mountain, from which there is a fine view

of the valley and the town. This beautiful
body of water, half-a-mile long by a quar-
‘ter wide, is without a peer in any land. In
a row in one of the elegant boats over its
surface, the tourist can see the petrified
forest standing upright many feet below
the surface, with trout swimming among
its branches. Here, in the large hatching
houses, are thousands of California salmon
of various ages, while in the lake there have
been placed over ten thousand trout.

THE SnakE River Pass—has also a
good carriage road to its summit. Here
you can stand, one foot resting on the At-
lantic, the other on the Pacific Slope.
From this point is one of the grandest
views of mountain scenery on the conti-
nent, including the Mount of the Holy
Cross, so named by the early explorers
from the gigantic cross of ‘eternal snow
that rests upon the bosom of the mountain.
The tourist can here pick flowers with one
hand and gather snow with the other.