" ... park-like country ... "

1, May, 2018

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Coast Trails 

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Here we find Chase and  ' Chino ' near Ballard, CA,

north of Mission Santa Ines. Chase takes the time to

share with us an often encountered, yet still enriching

landscape, where even the cattle, in their own predilection,

are overwhelmed. 

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" This part of California is preeminently the land of oaks. My road

the next day, following the same canyon a few miles farther, passed

through a park-like country where every oak seemed to reach the

full magnificence of its type. The foliage swelled out in exuberance 

of glossiest green, and the convex of every leaf was burnished like

metal. Between the trees the ground was covered with heavy-

headed grasses, and the cattle stood gazing helplessly out over

leagues of waving pasturage. "

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photo:j. develyn, near Central California Coast

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**** Here is a contemporary review of Chase's ' Coast Trails ' from
a 1913 American publication. ****

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