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“The Chumash are the guardians of this gateway, and the Humqaq is the legendary half-way house to which the soul of the deceased retreats before making the final journey on the bridge to Similaqsa, the afterworld. Chumash stories tell of the steep cliff at Humqaq, which can be reached only by a rope and which is a basin fed by fresh water. Here the spirit of the dead is said to paint itself in...
California Hops 1868
HOPS.
This climate is peculiarly suited to hops. The vine grows and bears well wherever it has been planted. It does best on low poles or stakes and running on cords between, by which its roots get shelter from our long summer sun. The yield, while the vines are yet so young, is over eleven hundred pounds per acre ; fifteen hundred pounds may be the yield per acre in 1868. The consumption is...
Santa Barbara 1868
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.
Santa Barbara county embraces the angle of the coast at Point Concepcion, whence it trends nearly north forty miles, and easterly ono hundred and twenty miles. It is the only county in the State having so large a coast line facing towards the south. This peculiarity in its topography exerts a great influence over the climate and productions of this county, and those south...
“No country in the world was as well supplied by Nature, with food for man, as California, when first discovered by the Spanish. Every one of its early visitors have left records to this effect—they all found its hills, valleys and plains filled with elk, deer, hares, rabbits, quail and other animals fit for food; its rivers and lakes swarming with salmon, trout, and other fish, their...
