A BIT OF VICTORIA HARBOR
Victoria seems to me a very pleasant sort of place, though not thoroughly English as one might expect it to be. The town is widely scattered, the citizens giving themselves land enough around their houses to grow and abundance of flowers; while the gas lamps and the telephone lines extend so far that wheat fields are illuminated, and the electric messages fly from housekeeper to market-man over wide cow pastures and truck gardens.

Ernest Ingersoll, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April, 1884