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eeeded to Pine Valley and camped until August 14 at a place having 

 the altitude of 1,091 kilometers, or 4,200 feet (aneroid), in the pine 

 zone of the Coast Range Mountains. On August 11 we retraced our 

 steps to Alpine and returned to San Diego on August 15. 



August 15 to September Li. 1894. — While at San Diego, through 

 the courtesy of the Secretary of the Treasury and of (apt. W. I). 

 Roath, commanding- the revenue cutter Wolcott, I was enabled to 

 visit the island of San Clemente, about 97 kilometers (60 miles) off 

 the coast of southern California. On this trip I had the company of 

 Prof. T. S. Brandegee and Mr. A. W. Anthony. We left San Diego 

 Bay early on the morning of August 22, and anchored off Smugglers 

 Cove, San Clemente Island, on the evening of the same day. landing 

 with our camp equipage during the forenoon of August 23. We 

 were encamped at Smugglers Cove until August -j ( .>. when we returned 

 on the Wolcott to San Diego, after exploring the south end of the 

 island and the shore from China Point to its southeast corner. Hav- 

 ing received orders to report for duty at Fort Myer, Virginia, I left 

 California on September 9 for the East, passing out of the State of 

 Texas, by the Southern Pacific Railroad, on the morning of Septem- 

 ber 12, 1804. 



GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE REGION EXPLORED. 



The General Description of the Country Adjacent to the Inter- 

 national Boundary Line, from the pen of Lieut. David Du B. 

 Gaillard, Corps of Engineers, comprising Chapter II of Part II of 

 the Report of the Boundary . Commission upon the Survey and 

 Re-marking of the Boundary between the United State- and Mexico 

 west of the Rio Grande, 1891 to 1896,° published in 1898, must be 



o The Report of the International Boundary Commission of the United States 

 and Mexico comprises three bound volumes, as follows: 



(1) Report of the Boundary Commission upon the Survey and Re-marking 

 of the Boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande. 

 1891 to 1896. Tarts 1 and II. Bart I. Report of the International Commission. 

 Bart II, Report of the United States Section. Washington : Government Print- 

 ing Office. 1808. pages 1 to 240. 4to. with numerous full-page plates, text figures, 

 and diagrams, none of them numbered. List of illustrations ( i. e.. full-page 

 plates), Bart I, p. 10; Bart IT. p. 6. Volume without index. 



(2) Report of the Boundary Commission upon the Survey and Re-marking 

 of the Boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande. 

 1891-1890. Allium [first title]. Views of Monuments and Characteristic 

 Scenes along the Boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the 

 Rio Grande. Reproduced from photographs taken under the direction of the 

 International Boundary Commission. 1892-1895 I second title].. The regular 

 edition contains 258 half-tone engravings, reproductions of photographs of 

 Monuments Xos. 1 to 258, as they now stand, in sequence, with numbers of 

 monuments and descriptive text in Spanish and English; plates not otherwise 

 numbered; size, 11 by 14 inches. A very limited edition of this Album, 



