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cut to size (newspaper quality, unprinted), it was possible 

 to do good and rapid work. Experience shows that 

 more plants are spoiled by too little than by too much 

 pressure. 



ROUTE AND PRINCIPAL CAMPS. 



The accompanying map will indicate the route in a 

 general way but of course cannot show the miles and 

 miles of ground covered in the vicinity of the various 

 camps, nor the wide detours made on horseback during the 

 days the party was traveling. At a rough guess, more 

 than two-thirds of the time was spent on the road, as the 

 distance covered was upwards of 1,000 miles. 



The days of travel were busy ones for the Botanist 

 and his assistant, for at noon the collections of the morn- 

 ing were put into press, the driers on all the other recent 

 material were changed, the damp driers thrown out on the 

 hot sand and again collected. When camp was made for 

 the night the afternoon collections were cared for, and, if 

 they chanced to be heavy, the task was often completed 

 by the campfire. 



To enter into a detailed account of the journey would 

 take up too much space, possibly to no purpose, so the 

 following skeleton account must suffice: The route from 

 Laramie took a north-east direction over the Laramie 

 Hills past Grant, Wheatland and Uva postoffices to the 

 Platte River, where camp was made July 10. After four 

 days the camp was moved in turn to Hartville, a mining 

 district, to Whalen Canon, and to the Mexican Mines. 

 From this place a side trip was made by the Botanist and 

 his assistant to Lusk. Camp was broken at the Mexican 

 Mines on July 22, and the Platte River again reached at 

 Orin Junction. From this place the river was followed 



