114 Geographical Notices. 
with a useful variety of soil, and that picturesque beauty of scen- _ 
ery, which adds such a charm to rural life. z 
than half of the distance 
toward the dividing ridge, good ing and a 
are interspersed with groves of timber, presenting all the desira~ 
ble features of an inhabitable country. é 
Ill. The western slope of the Sierra Nevada, descending into the — 
Tulare valley, and thence across the coast range of California, 
or down the Tulare and San Joaquim valleys to the Pacific—Tms 
section of country comprising the southern extension of the great 
valley of California, is too well known to require any detailed — 
description. ; 
her information respecting this region is given under 
seven heads, viz: Climate, Supply of Water, Vegetation, Adap- 
ericulture, Minerals, and Facilities for railroad con- 
he recapitulation is as follows. 
‘The general comparative advantages of this trans-continental — 
Le y be thus briefly summed up: a 
ate favorable to health and activity, 
1e moist southerly currents, while same time 
from the severe northern blasts, receiving along the higher eleva 
“ipitation of rain and snow sufficient to favor the gro 
: upla it any 
