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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the State Mineralogist of the State of Nevada, for the Years 1877 and 1878 The general surface of Nevada is a table land, bounded on the west by the lofty Sierra Nevada range of mountains, and traversed in a north erly and southerly direction by numerous parallel ranges which have an altitude of about nine thousand feet. The long valleys between vary in elevation from four thousand to six thousand feet. With the exception of the south-east corner, which 18 a part of the Colorado basin, and a nar row strip to the north, which is drained by the Snake River, the State lies wholly in what is called the Great Basin. Were this region nu broken, and a plateau of uniform surface and height, it would be another Sahara in barrenness and extent. Instead, there are many fertile valleys and living streams of water. In these mountain ranges are accumulated in winter vast quantities of snow, which, melting during the summer. 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.