John Shertzer Hittell

Hittell's Hand-book of Pacific Coast Travel John Shertzer Hittell

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...much trimming and can be trained into low hedges or high walls. The two, pine and cypress, groves are near together, but each kind keeps by itself. At the outer end of the Pine Grove, four miles west of town, is Point Pinos, with a light-house. Two miles south of it is the Moss Beach, where there is a strip of sand nearly half a mile wide, between the lines of high and low tide, and here great quantities and many varieties of algae or sea moss may be found. Beautiful specimens of these mosses, dried and pressed out, can be bought in the town. At the southern end of the Moss Beach is the Seal Rock, where seals bask in the sun every summer day. Hotel Del Monte.--The most interesting feature of the town of Monterey, for the tourist, is the Hotel del Monte, erected by the capitalists of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for the accommodation of visitors. It is one of the most complete buildings on the con tinent for the accommodation of pleasure-seekers. The length is 385 feet, the width, 115; the height, 3 stories. There are accommodations for 400 guests. The hotel has its own gas works, and ia supplied with water from its own artesian well. The grounds of the hotel have an area of 100 acres, partly in beautiful garden and lawn, and the remainder wooded with oak, pine and cypress trees. Near C by, and under the same ownership, are 7,000 acres of land, through I which there are fine roads, open to the patrons of the hotel. A i bathing pavilion contains four tanks, each 50 feet long and 36 wide. These are filled with salt water which is heated to a temperature of about 70. There are also separate bathrooms. The whole establishment is managed in the best style, and it has done much to attract great numbers of visitors to Monterey. The hotel is within a few ya...