. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... n STATE OF TopoffVaphy.—Nevada has an extreme length north andsouth of 485 miles; its greatest breadth through the centre isabout 3:20 miles; area, 110,700 square miles, or 70,8-18,000 acres,with 58,43(3,498 still unsurveyed. The surface is an elevatedtable land, with an average altitude of 4,500 feet above theocean, and broken by parallel ranges of mountains, runningfrom north to south, which attain a height of from 1,000 to 8,000feet. The Sierra Nevadas, which reach an elevation varyingfrom 7,000 to 13,000 feet, form
. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... n STATE OF TopoffVaphy.—Nevada has an extreme length north andsouth of 485 miles; its greatest breadth through the centre isabout 3:20 miles; area, 110,700 square miles, or 70,8-18,000 acres,with 58,43(3,498 still unsurveyed. The surface is an elevatedtable land, with an average altitude of 4,500 feet above theocean, and broken by parallel ranges of mountains, runningfrom north to south, which attain a height of from 1,000 to 8,000feet. The Sierra Nevadas, which reach an elevation varyingfrom 7,000 to 13,000 feet, form a part of the western would be difficult to say what part of the State is the water-shed, for the rivers,which are not navigable, run in all directions, and with few exceptions fail to reachthe sea. Some empty into lakes or sloughs, and others sink into the earth. The Col-orado river forms a part of the eastern and southeastern border, and the longest streamis the Humboldt, which rises in the northeastern part of the State, and has a course of300 miles within it, ter
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