San Diego Definition

San Diego Sentence Examples

• The coast is bold and rugged and with very few good harbours; San Diego and San Francisco bays being exceptions.

• Below San Francisco the precipitation decreases along the coast, until at San Diego it is only about io in.

• Raisins do well as far north as Yolo county, but do best in Madera, Jesus, King, Tulare and San Diego counties.

• The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.

• Because of these explorations, and also the long-felt need of a refitting point on the California coast for the galleons from Manila, San Diego was occupied in 1769 and Monterey in 1770 as a result of urgent orders from Charles III.