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E INDEX. 
A. 
Page. 
Adobe houses Pes. 79 
Adobe house at Warner’s 106 
Agassiz, Prof. Louis, notice of fossil fishes by...... 152, 171 
Agate and carnelian in the sand of the Desert........ 120 
Agate Creek 67 
Agates near Williamson’s Pass 67 
the Bernardino Sierra 63 
Arave E =. 105 
g 
Agriculture at San Bernardino 82 
Agricultural capabilities of the soil of the Desert ..248, 250 
= 
p 
75 
Agua Caliente 106, 125 
O aR near Mart 5 
Air current through er Minn Gate to the interior -- 253 
to the interior, through the pass of San 
Bernardino 
91 
Air, clearness of, on the Desert 251 
; 109 
Algodones 111 
Alluvium of the Desert 234 
of the San Joaquin 10 
Alluvial of King’s River 25 
of the Four Creeks 2 26 
of the Santa Clara 72 
of San Gabriel 79 
of the vicinity of San Francisco............ 159 
Altitude of the surface of —— the Colorado 
Desert, and coast sl pared 144 
Altitude of the Sierra Nevada. ere LC PERE A ee 134 
merican River 262, 263 
American River, eroded valley of : 
American aloe 123 
Amidor’s and Livermore's Valley 141 
Analysis of the incrustation from the hot springs at 
San Bernardino 84 
Analyses of the sii of San Bernardino - UHR dec 08 
Amnicola .... : 
Ancient Lake of the Colorado Desert. ----97, 235 
Ancient Lake, epee! of by the Indians. as w 98 
Andalusite, Bear 0 15 
Chow eau River i 16,304 | 
Andalusite slate : 16 | 
Anodon! 103, 109 
Anodouís, fossil on tise تست‎ But. E 97 
Anomia 
Flt 
r 176 | 
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Antelope, herds of, near King's River 25 
near Lake Elizabeth 56 
Anticlinical axes in the sandstone of San Francisco.... 154 
Antlers of the elk 1 
Antimony, sulphuret of 43,291 
ibid a of the Toejon Indiens Ai u 41 
Archilette 224 
Arca Es 171 
Arca microdonta 188 
Area of the Great Basin 213 
of the Colorado Desert 144 
gill dst 104 
Argill SENS 33 
Argillaceous and talcose slates---------------------- 270 
Armagosa 224 
Arsenic 303 
Artesian wells, probable success of in the Great Basin.. 224 
Artesian wells at San Franciseo.................- 161,162 
at San José 162 - 
Ascequias 111 
Asphalt 284 
Aspinwall 1 
Auriferous drift or alluvia at Yankee Jim's ---------- 262 
at Forst IN La 262 
"uade. 263 
at Michigan City.........- 264 
at í 268 
at Georgetown ......- se.. 213 
as Comment I... ue 274 
McRLIONS OF un 277 
local character of --------- 277 
ine deposits. -.....- 278 
its relations to the tertiary.. 189 
prid quarts, Quartebare ir leo ccu. 
uriferous slates in the Pass of San Francisquito ----- 59 
— for the supply of water to the miners ----- 261 
Azoic 254 
B. 
Baculites in the strata of Chico Creek 173 
Bailey, Prof. J. W., observations on the microscopic 
ptio) 
found in the Great Basin .... 183 
Barbacoas -- 1,2 
Baker’: h 264 
