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up the right-hand branch, which was enriched by a profusion of flowers, 
and handsomely wooded with sycamore, oaks, cottonwood, and willow, with. 
other trees, and some shrubby plantse dn its long strings of balls, this 
—. differs from that of the United States, and is the platanus occi-+ 
entalis of Hooker—a new'species, recently described among the plants 
collected in the voyage of the Sulphur. The cottonwood varied j folia 
with white tufts, and the feathery seeds were flying plentifully througt tte 
air. Gooseberries, nearly ripe, were very abundant on the mountain; and 
as we passed the dividing grounds, which were not very easy to ascertain 
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Sierra Nevada, we found this pass an excellent one forborses ; and with 
distant. The elevation was not taken—our half-wild cavaleade making it 
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e here left the waters of the bay of San Francisco, and, though force 
upon them contrary to my intentions, I cannot regret the necessity which — 
ell acquainted with the great 
range of the Sierra “Nevada of the Alta California, and showed that this 
broad and elevated snowy ridge was a continuation of the Cascade Range 
of Oregon, between which and the ocean there is still another and a lower 
range, parallel to the former and to the coast, and which may be called the 
Coa t also made me well acquainted with the basin of the San 
Francisco bay, and with the two pretty rivers and their valleys, (the Sacra- 
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Nevada, it 
of the San Joaquin, and of the valley below it, which collects the waters 
of the San Francisco bay, show that this neither is nor can be the case. ~ 
tr : the Si 
river, it is, in fact, 2 smalt stream of no egnse : 
ierra Nevada, but detually below the Coast 
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