The Great Valley Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The San Joaquin Valley Across the great valley, sixty miles to the west, rises the Mt. Diablo range which is a long spur of the coast chain of mountains. This range is the western' boundary of the San Joaquin Valley. In all of its aspects this western range differs from the Sierra Nevada. Its extreme altitude is not over five thousand feet. On its eastern slopes, as seen from the valley, there is a noticeable absence of timber. The hills are undulating rather than prec1p1tous. The most marked difference, however, is the absence of steadily flowing streams. There are creeks that rise suddenly and run torrents while fed by seasonal rains. These subside just as sud denly, and entirely, when the rains cease. Toward the south, the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges converge and unite forming a crescent shaped chain that embraces the upper or southern end of the San Joaquin, sepa rating it from that portion of the state designated as Southern California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.