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Adventures in Scenery 



from stream beds or dug from hard rock veins, the broad ex- 

 panse of the great Interior Valley, the fields and fertile valleys 

 in which are grown the marvellous variety of farm crops, fruits, 

 vegetables and nuts, the pastures where graze herds and flocks 

 of cattle and sheep, the arid plains where abound the horned 

 toad and the cactus, the palms of the south and the pines of the 

 north, the fertile soil and the barren, all are the product of the 

 great geologic laboratory which is now called California. The 

 geological story is long. Time has been long. California as we 

 now see it is the product of a long past. 



