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and kisses roses into their cheeks making them the most beautiful and healthy appearing in all the world.

If Columbus had ever reached California he would not only have thought it was very near the "Terrestrial Paradise," but he would have said with Joaquin Miller:

"Be this my home till some fair star
Stoop earth-ward and shall beckon me,
For surely God-land lies not far
From these Greek heights and this great sea.
My friend, my lover trend this way
Not far along lies Arcady."