Excerpt from Notes on the Geology and Botany of the Country Bordering the Northern Pacific Railroad Further west, with every kind of soil, geological structure and topography, there are he trees, but everywhere grass while east of the Mississippi and beyond the battle-ground between the two forms of vegetation, all kinds of topography, soil and geological substructure are covered with forest. No one who has traversed the continent, as I have done, along several parallels of latitude, and has studied the relations of vegetation to soil and geological structure, will fail to find conclusive evidence that the influence which has determined. The kind and quantity of vegetation in the varied topographic and climatic districts of the West, is the rainfall. 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.