IV INDEX. 
P 
Denudation of the plain of lava at Fort Miller ------- 23 
Depot Camp at Ocoya Creek 
Desert, Colorado 
32 
.94, 112,234 
view of from Carrizo Creek 08 
Diablo valley 6,141 
Diabio range --.-.- 139 
iagonal stratification 167 
Diallage, or bronzite : 7 
Diallage in the serpentine of Fort Point 157 
Dislocation of a bed of sandstone.......------..-.-- 149 
Dome rock 114 
Drift or erratics near Tejon Creek 32 
Drift or detritus 8 
of the Tejon Pass 51,207 
resting on the edges of sandstone. .... 66 
overlying the strata of the Desert -... 175 
of the Great Basin 219 
forming a at San Bernardino.... 88 
Drift or een eh in the Cañada de las 
RE near Carrizo Creek 108 
Drifted sand 91,95 
Dry Creek à x 12 
Dry Creek, valley of ۱ 25 
Dry lake, or Playa, Great Basin 54, 220 
Be 58 
Dunes of blown sand at San Francisco ........... 160, 161 
Dwarf oaks - 42 
Dykes of trap. 79 
E. 
Earthquakes at Fort Yuma 115 
Easter, Dr. J. D., analysis by ... 84 
arg 1f Plakei 4 172 
Efilorescences from the soil 82 
Elbow Creek 26 
El Dorado Poe aqueduct of. ; 267 
Elephas, tooth 257 
Elevation of vie water-line 100 
p =- — ot بمب‎ een MED مت ییاد‎ 97 
tl level. 238 
of the slopes of the Great Basin 217 
of the California coast, evidences of-------- 186 
Elk 10 
Elkhorn 10 
Emigrant road from the Gila to Carrizo Creek ........ 99 
Emory, Major Wm. H., reference to the report of... 109 
Empire Company at Grass Valley 268 
Eocene fossils at the Cafiada de las Uvas 46 
Eocene strata of the southern end of the Tulare valley. 163 
Eocene fossils 
Erosion of the valley of the San Joaquin ee 23 
of river valleys 278 
Erupted rocks filled with agates u 
ee dyke of porphyry 68 
۱ Ur of water at ‘Ocoya Creek... 34 
xe rapidity of. l decem 194 
E i وج ریت‎ E مج‎ bem 3 we 5 
p ee 143 
F. 
ge, 
Faults in "rer vet Carrizo Creek 121 
Feldspathic so 39 
Feldspathic veins 12 
Feldspar in crystals 126,307 
Fertility of the soil of the Desert 111 
Fig trees 73 
Fir trees in the mountains at the head of the Tulare 
Valley 43 
Fissurella crenulata 186 
Fissure in the rocks at Pilot Knob ۱ 119 
Flexures of the strata near San Francisco 154, 155 
Flexure of the rocks of the Tejon Pass 205 
Flint containing fossils 112 
Flour mill at San Bernardino 81 
Fog and precipitation of water, Cajon Pass 85 
Fog at San Gabriel 79 
at Warner's Pass 105 
Forest Hill : 262 
Forests of pines 257 
Formations of San Francisco 145 
Foot hills of the Sierra Nevada : 12 
ort Miller 19,20 
mining at 20 
Fort Ross, sandstone of. 283 
Fort at Panama 2 
Fort Yuma on the Colorado 112,113 
Fossils at Ocoya Creek 33, 34, 170, 171,172 
at the head of the Tulare Valley-.----------- 42 
at San Fernando 
at Carrizo Creek 
108, 175, 235 
152 
in the sandstone of Benicia. - - -- - ------------ 5 
at San Fernando ER Li 
at San Diego dal wc BED 
at San Pedro 186 
at Chico Creek and Volcano Ridge. --.----- 173, 174 
in the clay of the Desert A E aa 
bed of at Ocoya Creek. ------ Wes 0 
eocene NET . 164 
Whesll shell: nei 1 
. eocene, at the entrance of the Cafiada de 
A AA ak S 46 
Fossil stems of plants ------.-------- === 36 
Fossil tree in sandstone .......---------+---- PNIS 12 
Fossil aysters a aided wale 
EIA nn ee 123 
Four Creeks, alluvial land of ....-.--- --—- PERS Rage 27 
vseietion a and Picea T BEAT E 21 
وروی روت‎ to Pass. rd o is سے چ‎ 55 
Frémont, Col. J. C., reference to lic on the 
.Great Basin Vicki im eain » 
Fresh-water shells, fossil . net a ate fee aes ere ee 
Fresno River. jedi dr د‎ I 
Fruit trees at the Tejon--------------------------- 40 
a. 
12 
Galeocerdo productus ..-.-.--.----------7777777 171,1 
Ga 二 9 
