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The Atlantic to the Pacific: What to See and How to See it (1873), by John Erastus Lester

TABLE OF THE ELEVATION OF PEAKS AND PASSES IN THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS.

Note.—These elevations are taken from the Reports of the Geological Survey of the State of California.

The Central Pacific Railroad crosses the Sierras by Donner Pass, and the road-bed at the summit is 7,042 feet; so that the original level of the pass was lowered only 14 feet, and the actual cutting-away was probably even less than that.

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