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GEOGRAPHICAL READER. 
tem looks as though the earth’s crust had been all torn 
and broken in pieces, instead of gently folded, as it 
appeared in the Appalachians. 
6. You would hardly suppose people could wish to 
live among the Rocky Mountains; but large numbers 
of men are there, and more are going every year. 
(Great herds of cattle are pastured in the valleys be- 
tween the ranges; and in the mountains, are rich mines 
of silver and gold, with towns growing up around 
them. Denver, at the eastern side of the mountains. 
is a large, busy, and beautiful city. 
7. The Rocky Mountains make a great dividing wall, 
extending across the entire country. Lven the water 
from the springs on the eastern side goes away to the 
Mississippi, and. finally to the Atlantic Ocean; while 
that on the western side flows to the Pacific. As you 
become older, you will be able to understand, much 
better than you now can, how very important this 
mountain system is. 
XVII.— ON THE TABLE-LAND. 
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1. BEYOND the Rocky Moyntains, is another vast 
plain, many hundred miles broad; and on the western 
border of that, is another great system o£ mountains, 
called the Sierra Nevada. "This whole plain between 
the two mountain systems is lifted up, so that it is 
higher than the ranges of. ;palachian Mountains