Identifier: reportofboundary00inte (find matches)
Title: Report of the Boundary commission upon the survey and re-marking of the boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande, 1891-1896 ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: International boundary commission (United States and Mexico) 1882-1896. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 15 CHAPTER II. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY ADJACENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY LINE. Any general description of the country adjacent to the international boundary line betweenthe Rio Grande and the Pacific must of necessity give au incomplete idea of its appearance to oneunfamiliar with the arid regions and the peculiar character of its fauna and tloia, for probably inno section of the Fnited States of equal extent is the rainfall so small and the summer heat sointense. The average annual precipitation along the entire boundary is but about 8 inches, andon the Yuma and Colorado deserts but 2 or 3 inches, a deficiency which will be made more significantto the ordinary reader when it is stated that the boundary line, although having a total length ofabout 700 miles, crosses but five permanent running streams between the Rio Grande and thePacific and this, too, although crossing most valleys and mountain ranges nearly at right angles,the dire

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