The Archive · 1903

The Lotus Hills

'The majority of the visitors here come to rest and recuperate, and usually do <0 by a large amount of out-door exercise in. visiting the places of interest, of which the "Connected (ji) Inlls," styled' Lotus Hills" by the foreigners, th-ough having mistaken the character applied to them ea a stone tablet in the yard of the tempi one of the beautiful ravines, may ly mentioned. These hills r.cks ant ruggedness; their flowers and trees, largely pine; their quiet ravines and grand ocean-outlovks; and the still grander m-take of landward scenery, of distant mountain and nearer valley and plain, as welles the sea which is gained from the tops of the hills, are much sought by picnickers and such as love a quiet stroll amid nature's beauties. The other point of special interest is the beach at East Cliff where some very beautiful shells are found. The variety is not yet great, but the quality is fine. "The bathing is one great attraction for health resort, and while there are some very rough, ragged, and precipi bluffs which add much to the attra:

the coast, scattered! all along the five or six miles of irrogalar coost-line are many coves and ninall buys where the bathing 1s all that could be desired.

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