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_ ~The following account is given of the two principal valleys 
ofthe state. “The great valley between the Sierra Nevada and 
the Coast Mts. is traversed in its lowest portion by the Saera- 
mento and San Joaquin rivers, which, flowing from the north 
south, unite in the latitude of San Francisco and empty into 
the bay. It however extends farther south than the sources of 
1¢ San Joaquin, its southern limits being determined by the 
wnion of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Mts. under the par- 
allel of 85°, and its northern limits extending beyond the paral- 
lel of 40° near to the head waters of the Sacramento, or over 
, p. 545. 
_ ‘Smmanded by Lieut, Whicipl, Herr Mollhausen, whose ske 
d landscapes illustrate vol. 2 of this i pi 
views 
hes which are now in the ession of the King of Prus- 
v7 These are about to be publistied in an elegant — by 
éndelssohn in Leipsic, accompanied by Mollhausen’s diary <a 
4 the journey, which will form a sort of commentary upon the 
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