260 Geological Survey of California. 
of that region. He has now joined an exploring party throu 
eastern Oregon, emphatically a g 
region he can hardly fail to bring back geological facts of importance. 
The expedition was to start from Fort Klamath, on the north end of Kla- 
oe region; those who have consulted this gentleman’s publications 
on the districts examined by him in the Alps, especially in Tyrol, an 
extremely difficult region, we shall have to wait many years. . 
In alluding to a few of the results of the Geological Survey in this 
= department, it will be necessary to be extremely brief; for, } 
Were a suitable place for it, details would hardly be intelligible without 
Maps and sections. 
Perhaps the most striking result of the Survey is the proof we have © 
eo es 
tte that extremely important and highly fossiliferous 
rias. 
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great Triassic belt of the Pacific coast has been most fully e* 
d by the Survey in the latitude of 40°, and over a width east an¢ 
of nearly four degrees of longitude (117° to 121°). It is from this 
