History Of California Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from History of California, Vol. 1 In the southern part of the state, near Los Angeles, there is a lake of asphalt, a trap which nature set for living creatures, which has been found to contain in a perfect state of preservation the largest collection of extinct animals and flying creatures of the Pleistocene age the world has ever seen. The flora of California is as remarkable as its fauna, and in its mountain ranges the Sierra Nevada is considered as forming the finest mountain system in the United States. 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.