Charles Nightingale.
An American Journey: Views of Mexico and North America in 1877 was a travel book published in London in 1880 by the British writer Charles Nightingale. Sobel quotes Nightingale's comments on the Mexican state of California: "This state has all the qualities of Manitoba with a far more salubrious climate than that northern paradise. The land is rich, the people friendly, the prospects inviting. Heaven, thy name is California!"