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Identifier: californiasoutht00sout (find matches)
Title: California south tehachapi..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Pacific company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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.e r -^ * ^^^^^^ ^an<^ lE^ 201 ^ Beyond* A SEA. OF SALT. Any description of California South of Tehachapi withoutreference to that vast country east of the mountain wall thatencircles the better known sections, would indeed be like a ban-quet without a dessert. Vaguely described as The Desert, the wilderness betweenthe mountains and the Colorado river has many points of inter-est all its own. It is a desert with the treasures of King Solo-mons Mines; it is a desert with more salt of the earth than anyother in the world; it is a desert with oases that have the atmo-sphere of life; it is a desert with mountains miles high and basinstwo hundred feet below the surf of the Pacific; it is a desert ofsand and yet of luxuriant vegetation; it is a desert so unique inboth animal and vegetable life as to be of endless interest. Here lives the sand terrapin, almost a counterpart of thecommon mud-turtle, but an absolute teetotaler. Water to hirnis an unknown quantity that no algebraist could ma

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