ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE 



PACING 



I Mount Shasta . . . Frontispiece PA GE 

 ii Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Mon- 

 terey 14 



in Gorge of the Columbia River . . . . 15 



iv Relief Map of Washington and Oregon . 30 



v Relief Map of California and Nevada . 31 



vi Lassen Peak in Eruption 46 



vii The Fault Scarp of the Sierra Nevada . 47 

 vin Oil Wells at Summerland, California . 86 

 ix Cambrian Fossils from British Colum- 

 bia 87 



x Reconstruction of a Triassic Fish- 

 Lizard 102 



xi One of the Rancho La Brea Fossil Pits . 103 

 xii California Condor and Wren-tits . . . 110 

 xiii Chuckwalla and Desert Tortoise . . . Ill 

 xiv Oregon Ground Squirrel and Mountain 



Beaver 118 



xv Trout of the Pacific Coast 119 



xvi Puget Sound Marine Biological Station, 



Friday Harbor, Washington .... 126 

 xvn Scripps Institution for Biological Re- 

 search, La Jolla, California .... 127 



xvm Abalone Shells and Pearls 134 



xix A Mountain Meadow 135 



xx Chaparral, with Spanish Bayonet . . 150 



xxi Tree Yucca 151 



xxn The Grizzly Giant 166 



xxin Monterey Cypress 167 



xxiv Desert Palms 174 



xxv Lake Spaulding Dam near Emigrant 



Gap, California 175 



xxvi Mount Wilson Solar Observatory . . . 206 

 xxvn Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton . .207 



xxvin Mount Rainier 262 



xxix The Stevenson Monument, Portsmouth 



Square, San Francisco 263 



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