ALTITUDE AND LOCALITIES OF THE TERRACES. 



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Leaving the inland valleys and taking the line of travel along shore, the whole base of the Santa 

 Barbara range, coastward, will be found to be one great terrace from Point Concepcion to Santa 

 Barbara. As the latter place is approached, the terrace at the immediate base of the range is 

 scooped out, forming a valley, in which Mr. Hill's ranch and the Indian village are situated. 

 This terrace, in its whole length, averages 80 feet above the ocean level, toward which it presents 

 cliff edges. 



At the mouth of San Buenaventura river the foot hills of the Santa Inez chain approach the 

 shore ; on the shore edge of these, terraces are found 150 feet above the mesa land below ; in 

 the valley of this stream terraces of small elevation are found ; in the valley of Matilihah, 

 which lies near the head of this stream, surrounded by, the converging ranges of the coast, 

 terraces exist on the hills on each side of the valley at an elevation of fiO feet above that of 

 camp, which was 2,000 feet above the sea. 



On the sides of the hills, the continuation of the Sierra Monica, extending into the Los 

 Angeles plain, terraces of small extent are found ; their elevation does not anywhere exceed 

 100 feet above the level of the plain. 



The following synopsis of the localities where terraces have been found, with their relative 

 and absolute height, may serve as a conclusion to this brief notice of the evidences of rising 

 land : 



Relative level above 

 valley or river 



Salinas river valley 



2 river bottoms. 



Terrace 70 miles up 



Pass to Monterey. 



San Bonito river 



Santa Margarita 



Santa Maria valley 



on San Jos^ mountains, No. 1. 

 No. 2. 



Santa Lucia range. 



Altitude of terrace at Quatre Domingo 



Panza — 1st terrace 



2d terrace 



Santa Inez — ancient valley 



1st terrace 



2d terrace 



Santa Barbara shore 



San Buenaventura mission 



Matilihah ..... 



Los Angeles valley 



Mojave valley 



6 



7 



20 



140 



40 



12 



30 

 150 

 150 



Absolute I evel above 

 sea. 



about 30 



180 

 170 



962 



1,500 



1,530 



1,680 



1,680 



1,530 



1,612 



1,682 



425 



445 



545 



80 



230 



2,060 



400 



2,050 



The terraces of the Salinas are illustrated in plate 1, fig. 1 ; of the Santa Maria, plate 2, fig. 

 4 ; of Santa Inez, plate 3, fig. 1 ; of Santa Barbara, plate 3, figs. 2 and 4 ; and of Buenaventura, 

 plate 4, fig. G. 



