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dino. It is a very irregular stream, sometimes being nearly 

 dry, and there are few settlers in its valley ; which may be tilla- 

 ble for a width of two and a length of twenty miles. Teha- 

 chepe Valley, drained by White Rock Creek, is ten miles long 

 and two wide. Amargosa River, terminating in Death Val- 

 ley, has a considerable basin, but no desirable land. Owen 

 Valley, eighty miles long, three miles wide, and 4,500 feet 

 above the sea, is fertile, and is supplied with water for irriga- 

 tion by numerous creeks that come down from the moun- 

 tains. Mono Valley, twenty miles long and three wide, is sim- 

 ilar to Owen Valley. The East Walker and West Walker 

 Rivers, tributaries to Walker River in Nevada, run through 

 deep canons in California, with very little tillable land. An- 

 telope Creek, emptying into Honey Lake, has a valley twenty 

 miles long and one wide. It is about 4,000 feet above the sea. 

 Susan River, emptying into the same lake, has a valley twice 

 as large. Some of the land is alkaline and unfit for cultiva- 

 tion. Pine Creek, a tributary of Eagle Lake, has a valley ten 

 miles long and half a mile wide. Surprise Valley, in the 

 northeastern corner of the State, is forty miles long and five 

 wide, and has a rich soil covered in places by a dense growth 

 of wild clover. 



151. Coast Valleys. In San Diego County, we find the 

 Tia Juana, (part of it belongs to Lower California) Sweet- 

 water, and Santa Margarita Creeks, and San Diego, San Ber- 

 nardo, and San Luis Rey Rivers. The last is the most import- 

 ant, but they are all small streams with little level land. Not 

 ten square miles out of fifteen thousand in this county, includ- 

 ing three thousand west of the main divide of the Coast 

 Range, are under cultivation. 



In Los Angeles County, as we move northward from the 

 San Diego line, we pass successively the San Juan and Alisos 

 Creeks, and the Santa Ana, Coyote, and San Gabriel Rivers. 

 The Santa Ana is the largest stream, emptying into the ocean 

 between Cape San Lucas and Monterey, a distance of a thou- 



