LIST OF LOCALITIES VISITED BY THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION, 



By T. S. Palmer. 



The delay in the appearance of the first part of the report, contain- 

 ing descriptions of the various points visited by the expedition, makes 

 it desirable to furnish a brief statement concerning the places referred 

 to. In describing an area like the desert region of California great 

 difficulty is experienced in fixing localities, and recourse must often be 

 had to canons, washes, and springs for names with which to indicate 

 places. For this reason a large number of seemingly unimportant 

 localities occur in the report, which can be found on few, if any, pub- 

 lished maps and are more or less meaningless to one unfamiliar with the 

 country. The following list, while making no pretense to include all 

 the localities mentioned in the report, gives brief descriptions of the 

 more important places, which will serve to locate them with reference 

 to well-known points. Many of these places will be described more 

 fully elsewhere. 



The altitudes have been compiled chiefly from Gannett's Dictionary 

 of Altitudes in the United States* and the map sheets of the Wheeler 

 Survey West of the 100th Meridian. These have been supplemented by 

 observations made by the expedition; but except in the case of points 

 in Death Valley (which were determined by a topographer of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey), such altitudes are based mainly on observations 

 made with aneroid barometers. Since the list is intended primarily as a 

 help in finding places on the map, distances, unless otherwise stated, 

 indicate the number of miles measured in a straight line between two 

 points, and not the distance by the road. In the case of railroad 

 points, however, the distances between stations are taken from the 

 railroad figures. This will explain the apparent discrepancy in many 

 cases between the distances given and the actual distances as measured 

 by an odometer. The metric equivalents for altitudes and distances 

 are only approximate, all fractions having been discarded in converting 

 the measurements into the metric system. Under each locality will be 

 found the names of the members of the expedition who visited it and 



* Bull. U. S. Geol. -Survey, No. 76, 1891. 



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