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of the continent. The heavy and entirely unprecedented rains of the 
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4Ppolnt, to complete the geological survey of the State, and to prepare a 
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The appropriation being so small, for the next two years the work will 
necessarily be continued on a rather small scale ; but it is thought that, if 
Following the provisions of the present Act, each volume of the Re- 
ts no hereafter to be published will form a part of the Final 
Port, which it is believed will comprise about ten large royal-octavo 
Volumes, 
The first volume to be issued will comprise the first installment of the 
Paleontology of the State. It will be illustrated: by 32 crowded plates 
on steel and stone, which have been for some time in the hands of the 
engravers, and of which the accompanying text is now passing rapidly 
through the press,° ‘ 
or B i arty exploring in the central portion of 
rewer, now in charge of a p: ty : ede -. A P ila 
Nevada, in a letter recently received the journey from 
to Visalia, through Pac ’3 Pass, and across the plain of the San Joa- 
| One of great hardship, owing to the extreme difficulty of procuring water or 
along the whole route. a 
; rats 27: 2h 7. . + pm rd tn (‘alifarnia 
3 the engraving of the plates will still require some time, the letter-press, which 
sanghesed inthe inns ed by itself 4 limited ber of copies, to which 
