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Rh the interior; being cooler in summer, and warmer in winter. The sea-fogs keep the vegetation forever green; and miasmatic diseases are unknown. These are certainly advantages not to be contemned. The settlers in the valleys would like to live on the coast, if it were not for the mountains between it and their fertile prairies. Yet, it is just by these mountains that the climate of each division is made what it is—partially confining the sea-fogs and winds to the coast, by which one is made cool and moist, while the other is comparatively warm and dry.