Excerpt from University of California Publications in Botany, Vol. 1 San Jacinto Mountain lies in latitude 33 Degrees 48' north, and in longitude 1160 41' west, and, as has already been stated, is the southernmost of a number of high peaks in a series of ranges extending across Southern California. These ranges have been considered by some to be the southern continuation of the Sierra. Nevadas, while others speak of them as a part of the Coast Ranges, but that they belong to neither Of these becomes evident when it is remembered that they were formed in much later geo logical times and that they are separated both from the Sierras and the coast mountains by Soledad Pass, the highest point of which has an altitude of only 2678 feet. The most impor tant of these southern mountains is the San Bernardino Range which lies in a general east-and-west direction in the southwest ern part of San Bernardino County and culminates in Grayback Mountain at feet altitude. 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.