Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by JOHN H. CARMANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. SAN FRANCISCO: CONTENTS. 468 PAGE. ...... 475 .Amos Bowman.. 34 Miss E. A. Kinnen............ 75, 124, 269, 328 After Two Hundred Years... ..R. A. Redman ... 363 Among the Ruins of Rome. I,II... Autobiography of a Philosopher. VII, VIII, IX, X.. Walt, M. Fisher. Beecher Trial, An Afternoon at the. Books of the Month.. 112, 208, 304, 400, 496, 596 Charles 7. Fox, 17 Joaquin Miller ............... 79, 144, 235, 355 Centennial Gleanings .. Taliesin Evans... 464 ..Mrs. 7. Preston Moore... Five Miles on a Keel.. 7. K. Goodrich 516 Sarah Chilton...... 547 In Memoriam (Benjamin P. Avery). Jack Myers. .Prentice Mulford. 380 Life - Harmony, The... 7. Royce.... 157 Literature and Art in California. A Quarter - Centennial Little Marie.... ..Millie W. Carpenter. Lumley's Pardner... .S. R. Brockton 65 ..S. P. Scott 172 Litton Forbes.... 209, 422 ..Henry L. Oak...... 305 Taliesin Evans...... 580 7. R. Scupham.... Helen W. Baker... ..A. P. Molitor... 71 ..T. 7. Arnold. ... 401 ..M. W. Hazeltine.... 248 .7. 0. Irwin ..... 135. 230 Edward Field.. 58 .Paul Schumacher. ...... 374 ...Hugh Humphrey.... 558 Mary T. Mott.. 23 7. W. Gally 320 Todd and his Double.... .S. W. Duffield. ..... 151 .E. G. Wuite 446 ..F. W. Van Reynegom.. ..... 497 . William P. Gibbons.. Yea Yea, and Nay Nay... Walt, M. Fisher. 285 408 ... 113 ...... IOI California and Mexico. —Notes from the Celestial Capital. The Dandelion, Art Notes. Riflemen, Form! - An Artist's Trip in the Sierra. —Art Notes. A Tribute to California... ..... 197 Taking Stock. Scientific Notes. Thor and the Giant Thrym. Art Notes, The Palace Our Quarter-Centennial.-—-Our Financial Condition. -An Artist's Trip in the Sierra. II.- -Notes 387 483 -Art Appreciation. - As Near as I Know. - A Note from Abroad. - A Pacific Day. .L. H. Foote ... ..D. W. C. Nesfield.... 567 515 33 491 A Practical Theory of Voussoir Arches (By William Cain). 304 300 398 303 397 493 III 303 Library Notes (By A. P. Russell) Mabel Martin (By John G. Whittier) 495 308 302 207 .... 494 304 ... 108, 590 495 109 ... Ito 392 205 Report of U.S. Commissioner of Education for 1874 (By John Eaton). Satires of A. Persius Flaccus (By Bail L. Gildersleeve). 397 304 .... 203 593 ... 395 492 361 .... 590 302 The Story of the Hymns (By Hezekiah Butterworth). The Theistic Conception of the World (By B. F. Cocker). 490 207 301 396 ...... ... 206 . THE OVERLAND MONTHLY DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. 15. - JULY, 1875. - No. I. THE CALIFORNIAN DESERT BASIN. HE Pacific States, being compar- ers, and the cause of most of the ills some large areas but little known, some ject. But the rest of the State is rapidly even only partially explored, and about filling up. Tule - lands are being rewhich very little has been published. claimed at heavy expense. Railways Some portions of California are in this are projected and building, which will condition, especially the great Desert cross the desert basin at several places; Basin, extending from the head of the and it is a matter of interest to all to Gulf of California northward, embracing find out whether it is possible to do anythe Colorado Desert, the Mohave Desert, thing to redeem so immense an area and the Amargoso or Death Valley, all from its dreary desolation and bring it connected with one another, and forming into a condition to contribute something a continuous basin, much of which is as to the general good. The following low as or lower than the level of the notes, prepared from observations made ocean. Dreary and forbidding in char- by the writer during several expeditions acter, difficult and dangerous to cross, into this territory within the past five destitute of water or vegetation except years, though with no attempt at dein small portions like the gases of the tailed scientific description, may be found African deserts, burning under a tropi- of interest, and to give some new ideas cal heat, swept by terrible sand-storms, of a region so little known or described. and only inhabited by strange animals The portion treated of lies in San Diego and reptiles, this great extent of country County, and, for a better understandis considered worthless for human hab- ing of its peculiarities, a few preliminary itation, and, by its climatic influences, a words may be said in regard to that porcurse to the inhabitable and fertile por- tion of the State. tions of the State, the dread of travel- The county of San Diego is one of Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by John H. CARMANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Vol. 15. - 2. |
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