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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in,for it is to the lee of the Cascade and Sierra NevadaMountains. Large areas are semi-desert, and only inthe more exposed, and therefore wetter, parts isagriculture carried on. The largest city and port is Portland (Ore.), which is120 miles from the mouth of the Columbia. Farthernorth, on Puget Sound, are Seattle and Tacovia. Allthree trade in wheat, lumber, wool, canned fruits andsalmon. Yellowstone Park.—This famous park, which is notquite as large as Yorkshire, lies in the Rocky Mountainsin the north-west corner of Wyoming. It is on thewatershed, or Great Divide, between rivers flowing west-wards and those flowing to the Mississippi, and is at anelevation of about 7,000 feet above sea-level. The Park contains, amongst other wonderful things,hot springs, boiling mud springs of very many colours,geysers, canons, lava flows and extinct volcanoes, besidesbeautiful lakes, waterfalls and macrnificent forests. Thewhole area has been set aside as a National Park so as 404 NORTH AMERICA
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niANC I OS Angela SanDiegPACIFIC O C E AN Scnlc Fig. 107. Map of ihe Western St ites. The sluuled areas are over 1,500 feet in elevation. to preserve for ever one of the most wonderful rep^ionsin the world. The laws also*protects animals and birds. rill-: IMlJa; STATICS 405 Tin: Grkat Basin. This plateau region is bounded on tlic west by theSierra Nevadas and on the east by the WahsatchMountains, and is crossed by many north and southridges, many of which have been produced by.the frac-turing and tilting of the rocks comprising the plateau(see Fig. 108). Like the Snake plateau, the Great Basinlacks rainfall, a-nd for the same reasons. There is not one large basin of inland or continentaldrainage, but many, for there arc several rivers whichdrain the basins between the parallel chains and findtheir mouths in salt lakes of varying size. The largestriver, the Humboldt, flows east and west for about 500miles, and ends in a lake of the same name. The largest

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