. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. tanislausand Tuolome Rivers, and the singular YosemiteValley, whence we descended into the great valley ofCalifornia, and made for San Francisco. From the latter place we made excursions first tothe old Spanish settlement of Monterey, which isclassical ground for the botanist, as being the scene ofMenzies labours during the voyage of our country-man, Captain Vancouver, in 1798 (whose surveys areheld in the highest estimation by Professor Davidsonand the officers of the Coast Survey of the UnitedState
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. tanislausand Tuolome Rivers, and the singular YosemiteValley, whence we descended into the great valley ofCalifornia, and made for San Francisco. From the latter place we made excursions first tothe old Spanish settlement of Monterey, which isclassical ground for the botanist, as being the scene ofMenzies labours during the voyage of our country-man, Captain Vancouver, in 1798 (whose surveys areheld in the highest estimation by Professor Davidsonand the officers of the Coast Survey of the UnitedStates), whom he accompanied as botanist. Then wewent northwards along the coast range to RussianRiver to visit the forests~of Redwood (Sequoia sem-pervirens), the only living congener of the * * big trees,and almost their rival in bulk and stature. Then toSacramento, and up the valley of that name for150 miles to Mount Shasta, a noble forest-clad vol-canic cone about 14 400 feet in elevation. Returningthence to Sacramento we took the Union PacificRailway eastwards, and from the highest station. Fig, 109.—agave striata (see p. 556.) parks and valleys, watered by tributaries of theArkansas, Platte, Colorado, and Rio Grande. FromDenver we proceeded north to Cheyenne in Wyo-ming, and thence westward by the Central PacificRailway, across the range to Ogden, and the GreatSalt Lake in Utah, which lies on the base of theWahsatch Mountains, themselves the western escarp-ment of the Rocky Mountains proper in that ascending these we proceeded westward by railthrough Utah to Nevada, thus crossing the great dryregion that intervenes between the Rocky Mountainsand the Sierra Nevada, which is variously known asthe Desert, Salt, or Sink region of North America,in accordance with the prevailing features of its severalparts. It is elevated 3000 feet to 4000 feet, andtraversed by numerous short meridional mountainridges, often reaching 8000 feet, and rarely 10,000feet elevation ; unl
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