. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. ansion of San Francisco The entire length of the Great Valleyis about 450 m., and its breadth averages about40 m.; area, 57,200 sq. m. The dniinage of thisentire area reaches the sea through the GoldenGate. There are several large mountain lakes inC, some of which are of pure and fresh water,while cjthers are alkaline, being without an finest of these is Tahoe, which lies on the verysuinniit of the Sierra, and at an elevation of 0,200feet. It has a length of about 20 m., and is 1,50)feet
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. ansion of San Francisco The entire length of the Great Valleyis about 450 m., and its breadth averages about40 m.; area, 57,200 sq. m. The dniinage of thisentire area reaches the sea through the GoldenGate. There are several large mountain lakes inC, some of which are of pure and fresh water,while cjthers are alkaline, being without an finest of these is Tahoe, which lies on the verysuinniit of the Sierra, and at an elevation of 0,200feet. It has a length of about 20 m., and is 1,50)feet deep, its water being extremely pure. Northof the parallel of 40°, where the Coast Ranges andthe Sierra imite, and where the Great Valley dis-appears, the country is extremely rough and verythinly inhabited. The 7 counties which are in-cluded within the region N. from the head of theSacramento Valley to the State line had in 1870 apop. of only 1!),2G9, and they had all lost in num-bers during the previous decade The cornerof the State is also extremely rough and mountain-. 52. — of ous, and a large part of it is quite iiorlion of C. which lies to the S. and K. ofthe southern inosculation of the Coast Ranges andthe Sierni, cotnprisitig an area of fully 50,000 , is also very thinly inhabited, with the ex-ception of a narrow sirij) along the coast. Nearlyall of San Diego and Sim Bernartlino Counties be-long to the Great Basin .system, having no drain-age to the sea. The Angeles County, however, haswithin its borders some of the most fertile lanils inthe State. These form a strip about 20 ni. widealong the coast; the half of the county, tm theother hand, is extremely barren. The regitm lyingE. of the Sierra Nevada, and between the crest ofthat range and the boundary of the State, chicHybetween the two counties of Mono and Inyo, isalso a very mountainous tract of country. Theclimate of C. is very different in different parts of
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