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the Sierra Nevada, are finally discharged into the Pacific by the bay 

 of San Francisco which bursts through a gap in a lower chain of 

 mountains bordering the coast. This western Coast Range, averag- 

 ing about two thousand feet in height, forms, with the Eastern Sierra 

 Nevada, the intermediate sloping plain or valley which is complete- 

 ly drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin. 



SHASTL PEAK. 



