ALTITUDE AND LOCALITIES OF THE TERRACES. 
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Leaving the inland valleys and taking the line of travel along shore, the whole base of the Santa 
Barbara range, coastward, will be found to he one great terrace from Point Concepcion to Santa 
Barbara. As the latter place is approached, the terrace at the immediate base of the range is 
scooped out, forming a valley, in which Mr. Hill’s ranch and the Indian village are situated. 
This terrace, in its whole length, averages 80 feet above the ocean level, toward which it presents 
cliff edges. 
At the mouth of San Buenaventura river the foot hills of the Santa Inez chain approach the 
shore ; on the shore edge of these, terraces are found 150 feet above the mesa land below ; in 
the valley of this stream terraces of small elevation are found ; in the valley of Matilihah, 
which lies near the head of this stream, surrounded by the converging ranges of the coast, 
terraces exist on the hills on each side of the valley at an elevation of 60 feet above that of 
camp, which was 2,000 feet above the sea. 
On the sides of the hills, the continuation of the Sierra Monica, extending into the Los 
Angeles plain, terraces of small extent are found; their elevation does not anywhere exceed 
100 feet above the level of the plain. 
The following synopsis of the localities where terraces have been found, with their relative 
and absolute height, may serve as a conclusion to this brief notice of the evidences of rising 
land: 
Relative level above 
valley or river 
| Absolute level above 
sea. 
Salinas river valley _ __ - _ _ _ . _ 
6 
| about 30 
2 river bottoms. \ 
1 2.__ 
7 
Terrace 70 miles up_ 
20 
| 
180 
Pass to Monterey_,_ 
140 
170 
San Bonito river___ 
40 
Santa Margarita_____ 
12 
962 
Santa Maria valley___ ____ 
1,500 
on San Jos($ mountains. No. 1____ 
30 
1,530 
No. 2. 
150 
1, 680 
Santa Lucia range_,_ 
150 
1,680 
Altitude of terrace at Quatre Domingo_ .. _ 
1,530 
Panza—1st terrace___ 
12 
1,612 
2d terrace_ 
70 
1,682 
Santa Inez—ancient valley_,. 
25 
425 
1st terrace___ _,_ 
20 
445 
2d terrace______ 
100 
545 
Santa Barbara shore_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ 
80 
San Buenaventura mission ...._ 
150 
230 
Matilihah_____....___ 
60 
2,060 
Los Angeles valley........... 
100 
400 
Mojave valley_ 
50 
2,050 
The terraces of the Salinas are illustrated in plate 1, fig. 1; of the Santa Maria, plate 2, fig. 
4; of Santa Inez, plate 3, fig. 1; of Santa Barbara, plate 3, figs. 2 and 4; and of Buenaventura, 
plate 4, fig. 6. 
