Beyond is a confusion of green mountains, from which a range of white summits rises in the calm distance.

Toward the south are solitary peaks with halos of fleecy cloud.
As for the prospect in the other direction, it shows at once that the way to print upon the mind a map of California's physical formation is to see it _a la_ bird's-eye--as the short path to acquaintance with a great city is a vertical one--to the tower of the City Hall.
One would require but a few more well-selected stations to map out all of Southern California.
The several valleys of which Los Angeles is the commercial capital are stretched out before us like perfectly level plains, divided by ranges of hills.

In the distance lies the glistening Pacific, with the blue outlines of Catalina and more distant islands etched upon the western sky.

This picture is sometimes so distinct that you find yourself trying to recognize acquaintances on the streets of Pasadena.

Again everything is dreamy with haze.