The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of UtahThe annual rainfall in the valleys is very low, the precipitation increasing slowly with the altitude up the mountains. At the same time the air is naturally excessively dry, the moisture content being, according to Gilbert, l but 45 per cent. Of that necessary for saturation, as against 69 per cent. In the region between the Mississippi river and the Appalachian mountains, and the power of evaporation annually 80 inches as against 22 inches over Lake Michigan. From the lower ranges the snow that falls commonly evaporates without melting or melts with out the formation of definite streams. The heavier snows of the higher ranges feed scattered springs and the small streams running down the cations and out a varying distance into the valleys, where, often becoming charged with alkali, they sink into the parched soil and are lost. Many of the springs at the bases of the mountains are brackish or salty, and some are warm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.