CALIFORNIA, LOWER

CALIFORNIA, LOWER
   (30), an extensive, mountainous, dry, and scarcely habitable peninsula, stretching southward from the State, in Mexican territory; agriculture is carried on in some of the valleys, and pearl and whale fisheries support some coast towns.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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