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Chapter V — The North Temperate Zone (concluded) 114 

 The tiocky Mountains and Pacific Slope 



The Rocky Mountains 114 



The Great Basin 120 



The Pacific Coast 125 



British Columbia and Puget Sound 129 



California 132 



The Mojave Desert 144 



The Sierra Nevada 145 



Southern California and the Colorado Desert 151 



Chapter VI — The Palaeotropics 157 



Africa and Continental Asia 



Tropical Africa 157 



Equatorial West Africa 159 



Tropical East Africa 163 



Portuguese West Africa 165 



The Great Kamerun 166 



East Central Africa 169 



The Asiatic Tropics 176 



Arabia 176 



India 177 



The Indus Plain 179 



The Gangetic Plain, Bengal 181 



Assam and Upper Burma 185 



The Western Ghats • . 186 



Ceylon 187 



Indo-China 194 



The Islands of the Indian Ocean, Madagascar 197 



The Seychelles 199 



Chapter VII — The Palaeotropics (continued) 200 



Malaija and Polynesia 



Malay Peninsula 200 



Singapore 204 



The Sunda Islands 210 



Borneo 210 



Sumatra 218 



