Excerpt from Soil Survey of the San Jose Area, California The northern portion of the sheet includes a large area of swamp land adjacent to the southern extremity of San Francisco Bay, with important fruit, grain, and hay growing sections of the counties of San Mateo and Alameda upon the west and east. 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.