994 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



camped at Sau Fernando, now represented only by the ruined mission 

 and a few huts, occupied by Mexicans and their numerous progeny, 

 while twice the number of dogs and a million times as many fleas 

 served to fully sustain the national reputation. 



The high mountain ridges at San Fernando are in part of compact 

 greenish quartz porphyry, sometimes so jointed as to resemble stratified 

 sedimeutaries with gentle slopes toward the east and more precipitous 

 toward the west. Passiug, next morning, northward and eastward of 

 San Fernando, the range from a slight distance shows highly tilted 

 stratified beds, and the landscape, with its pole like Fouquiera, is weird 

 in the extreme, particularly about sundown. (See Plate 3.) For the 

 remainder of the journey the route lay over a region essentially iden- 

 tical with that already described, San Quentin being reached early in 

 the morning of July 31 in season to catch the fortnightly steamer for 

 San Diego. 



