San Diego

San Diego, the principal port of southern California, and capital of San Diego county, stands on the beautiful bay of the same name, 124 miles by rail SSE. of Los Angeles. The bay, 6 miles long, forms an excellent harbour, and the port is now a very busy one, exporting much wool and other chief products of the country. The climate is genial, the temperature moderate, although the orange and olive flourish here; water is supplied by a long 'flume,' which cost nearly $1,000,000. Pop. (1880) 2637; (1890) 16,159. The old mission of San Diego (1769), the first white settlement in California, is 8 miles north of the present city.