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All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game

Charles Frederick Holder

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... they have been swept away by the resistless, onward wave of human progress. CHAPTER VII. THE ANCIENT PASADENIANS. Sites of ancient villages. Curious stone implements unearthed. Stone mo tars and pestles. Arrow heads, Matates, Discoidal stones. The discoverer of Los Angeles County. TN driving about Pasadena the visitor will see in a number of places curious stones hollowed out, wellrounded stone clubs, flat-faced grinding stones, and a variety of rude stone implements evidently of great age. These objects have been plowed up in various parts of the city, and represent the household gods of the aboriginal Pasadenian, the dishes, grain crushers, balls for playing games, and weapons of a people about which very little is known. Before referring to them it will perhaps interest the reader to read portions of a diary or log of Jean Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Spanish adventurer, who was the first white man to enter San Pedro, the port of entry of Los Angeles County. The voyage was made in 1542, three hundred and forty-six years ago--one hundred years after the discovery of America by Columbus. The record was found in a library in Madrid: --"On the Tuesday and Wednesday following they sailed along the coast about eight leagues, and passed by some three uninhabited islands (probably Catalina and San Clemente). One of them was larger than the other and extended two entire leagues, and forms a shelter from the west winds. They are three leagues from the main land; they are in thirty-four degrees. This day they saw on land great signal smokes. It is a good land in appearance, and there are great valleys, and in the interior there are high ridges. They called them Las Islas Desiertas (the desert isles). "The Thursday following they proceeded...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game. To get started finding All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... they have been swept away by the resistless, onward wave of human progress. CHAPTER VII. THE ANCIENT PASADENIANS. Sites of ancient villages. Curious stone implements unearthed. Stone mo tars and pestles. Arrow heads, Matates, Discoidal stones. The discoverer of Los Angeles County. TN driving about Pasadena the visitor will see in a number of places curious stones hollowed out, wellrounded stone clubs, flat-faced grinding stones, and a variety of rude stone implements evidently of great age. These objects have been plowed up in various parts of the city, and represent the household gods of the aboriginal Pasadenian, the dishes, grain crushers, balls for playing games, and weapons of a people about which very little is known. Before referring to them it will perhaps interest the reader to read portions of a diary or log of Jean Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Spanish adventurer, who was the first white man to enter San Pedro, the port of entry of Los Angeles County. The voyage was made in 1542, three hundred and forty-six years ago--one hundred years after the discovery of America by Columbus. The record was found in a library in Madrid: --"On the Tuesday and Wednesday following they sailed along the coast about eight leagues, and passed by some three uninhabited islands (probably Catalina and San Clemente). One of them was larger than the other and extended two entire leagues, and forms a shelter from the west winds. They are three leagues from the main land; they are in thirty-four degrees. This day they saw on land great signal smokes. It is a good land in appearance, and there are great valleys, and in the interior there are high ridges. They called them Las Islas Desiertas (the desert isles). "The Thursday following they proceeded...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game. To get started finding All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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