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Title: All about Pasadena and its vicinity; its climate, missions, trails and cañons, fruits, flowers and game
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard New York, C. T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ff shore the flying-fish leaps into theair and skims away; and beneath the wave are endlessforms of life interesting and unknown, awaiting theinvestigator. Whales are common all along shore, and occasionallythe great basking shark, thirty or forty feet long, is seen,or the giant ray, ten or fifteen feet across. The game laws of California, as recently amended,are as follows :— Quail, partridge, grouse, rail, September lo to March i- Doves, June i to January i. 88 PASADENA AND ITS VICINITY. Male antelope, deer or bucks, July i to December Female antelope, elk, mountain sheep, female deeror doe, killing at any time unlawful. Spotted fawn, killing prohibited. Taking quail, partridge, grouse, or rail by net orpound, prohibited. Trout, April i to November i. Salmon, October i to August 31. Fishing for salmon, shad, etc., with nets, betweensix oclock Saturday evening and sundown of succeed-ing Sunday, prohibited. Fishing by explosives, or by pound, weir, cage, trap,or set net, prohibited.
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CHAPTER X. ACROSS COUNTRY RIDING.Coursing with Greyhounds. Wild-cat hunts. Coyote hunting. Fox hunts. THE country in the immediate vicinity of Pasadenais a most attractive one to the equestrian, abounding,as it does, in drives and trails of singular variety andbeauty. Simple riding, however, with no object, is often tire-some ; but to those who care for the pleasures of thehunt a better field cannot be presented. The uplandcountry of Pasadena, or the mesa^ as it is called, aboundsin the Jack rabbit. It cannot be found in droves, as inthe country farther north, but in sufficient numbers toprovide the experienced horseman or woman withan abundance of sport. From one to four greyhounds and good horses con-stitute the necessary out-fit for an afternoons out-ing. The party, following Marengo Avenue, soonmount Monk Hill, or Washington Heights, as it is nowcalled. That next to the Raymond Hill is the highestprominence in the city. From here there is a fine viewof the valley, and the mountain

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