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Excerpt from An Agricultural Survey of Wyoming: Prepared Under the Direction of the Statistician In general terms mountainous, it is not so in the same degree as Col orado, whose lofty mountains are so bunched as to constitute the dome of the continent, but with lower ranges, and those completely broken' down at many points and so widely separated as to make broad valleys and plains, with a total area greater than that of any one of the older States excepting Texas, and an average elevation of about feet above the level of the sea. Wyoming is, in fact, a vast region of undulating plains, relieved by detached ranges and broken spurs of mountains, some of them with elevated spines and lofty peaks, the intervening plateaus and outlying plains being broadly grooved or deeply furrowed in every direction by very considerable rivers, with their numberless branches. The general direction of what was once an uninterrupted portion of the Rocky Range in Wyoming is northwesterly and southeasterly, its first appearance on the southern boundary being a little east of a mid dle point on said boundary; its disappearance, at the northwest corner of the State. 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.