TABLE OE CONTENTS. 



GEOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN SECTION OF NORTH 



AMERICA. 



GENERAL VIEW. 



Great Natural Divisions of N. America, 3 — Coasts on the Pacific and the Arctic Seag ; 

 4 — Mountain Chains of the Pacific Section — Far- West Mountains, 5 — Rocky Moun- 

 tains — Blue Mountains, 6 — Climate of the Pacific Section — Lakes, 7 — Rivers, 8 — • 

 Central Regions of JN. America — Animals and Vegetables of the Pacific Section — Na- 

 tives, 9 — Establishments of civilized Nations, 10 — Political Limits, 11. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Extent and Divisions — Gulf of California, 12 — Pearl Fishery — Sonora and Sinaloa, 13 — 

 Peninsula of California — Its Climate, Soil, Productions, and Animals, 14 — Aborigines — 

 Ports and Mexican Settlements, 15 — Continental or New California — Its Extent, Soil, 

 Climate, 16 — Ports and Mexican Settlements — San Diego, Santa Barbara — Monterey, 

 17 — San Francisco — River Sacramento, 18 — Bodega — Cape Mendocino, 19 — Interior 

 Regions — River Colorado — Utah Lake, 20. 



OREGON. 



Natural and assumed Boundaries, 21 — Strait of Fuca, 22 — Columbia River — North 

 Branch, 23 — South Branch — Main Trunk, 24 — Far- West Mountains, 25 — Westernmost 

 Region of Oregon, 26 — Blue Mountains — Middle Region — Easternmost or Rocky 

 Mountain Region, 27 — New Caledonia, 28 — North-West Archipelago, 29 — Aborigines, 

 30 — Hudson's Bay Company's Establishments, 31 — American Settlements, 33. 



RUSSIAN AMERICA. 



Extent and Limits — Russian American Company, 36 — District of Sitka — Sitka or New 

 Archangel — District of Kodiak, 37 — Cook's Inlet — Prince William's Sound — Mount 

 St. Elias — Aliaska — Aleutian Islands — Michaelof District, 38 — Kamtchatka — Kurile 

 Islands, 39. 



Sandwich Islands, 39 — Marquesas Islands — Society Islands, 40 — Projects for Canals 

 uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 41. 



