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In the Bay of Monterey there are great numbers of 

 the Mackerel and a fish similar to the Sardine. Por- 

 poises are seen playing and spouting in the bays, and 

 the whale is found off the coast. 



PORPOISE. 



Mr. Farnham enumerates among the fishes, the 

 halibut, skate, turbot, and bonito. But these of course 

 form but a very small part of that immense variety 

 which are found on the coast where the fish of the 

 tropical regions are mingled with those which people 

 the waters of the north. 



In the plants and trees of California there is a visible 

 field for the future explorations of the botanist. In 

 the vegetable as in the animal kingdom, we find the 

 products of various latitudes from the tropics to the 

 arctic regions all mingled together. Several varieties 

 of the pine are found, the most remarkable of which 

 is the Pinus Douglasii, first described by Douglas. 

 In the mountains about the Bay of San Francisco, the 

 Colorado River, and other parts of Upper California 

 specimens of this tree are found two hundred and forty 

 feet high, the bases of whose trunks are nearly sixty 

 feet in circumference. The trunk, says Farnham, 

 is quite destitute of branches until above more than 

 half the altitude, when they grow outward and upward 



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