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National Geographic : 1904 Apr
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S62 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Location of and Annual Precipitation at Certain Stations in the Arid Region of Western America. Chiefly from Records of the U. S. Weather Bureau traced by lines connecting the stations shown in the accompanying map. These regions may be designated as the Sonora Nevada Desert and the Chihuahua Desert. The Sonora-Nevada Desert embraces portions of Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona, Baja California, Sonora, and Sinaloa. The northern portion of this region is mainly comprised in the Great Basin, and embraces the beds of a number of ancient lakes and the surviving Great Salt Lake. Other special physiographic features of interest in this connection are the areas which bear the names of Snake River Desert of Idaho, the Sage Plains of Washington, the Lava Beds of
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