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Rh was later entirely made over. The priests of Santa Clara College now walk in the old gardens. In the library they show to the visitor parchment volumes, Gregorian song-books, baptismal records and a precious portrait of Serra. In one of the two towers of the present church hang three bells given to the Mission by a Spanish king. Before the church is a tall cross of wood to commemorate the first mass.

The Jesuit College has graduated many who have become famous in various walks. Its School of Oratory and Debate furnishes the actors for the Passion Play of Nazareth which is given every other year in a grove of trees planted by the friars.

North of Santa Clara, near Mayfield, is the mound of an Indian queen whose tribe once inhabited land about San José. Some of her people were buried here also. The spade of the antiquarian has turned up many examples of their earthenware and crude weapons.

Santa Clara is joined to San José by an electric line laid along a magnificent oak drive three miles in length, which is one of the historic highways of this benign country.

Planted from end to end in unerring rows of prune, apricot and peach, the County of Santa Clara is a vast orchard comprising nearly a million acres. When the year's at the spring the