Excerpt from Guidebook of the Western United States: Part D. The Shasta Route and Coast Line Ih'om Alaska to Lower California the western coast of North Amer ica is bordered by a belt Of mountains which Is from 100 to 200 miles wide. This belt as a Whole has been named the Pacific System. It separates the Pacific Ocean on the west from an interior plateau region, which also stretches from Alaska to Mexico. This plateau is Of varied character but, as is well illustrated by the State of Nevada, much of it is arid and is seamed with mountain ranges. 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.