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erous on the upper 4 with alternate clusters, but panicle not over 
2-3 ft. in all. (The peduncles 10-15 ft. not inches as given), The 
the top, and seems to have palo blanco all the way up, there is 
quit large, palo verde very common. Vegetation greener than at 
Loreto, 
Cayuca ranch, 2.30 p. m., 1000 ft. alt. Humidity 58 percent. 
Got many things in the box canon here, some ferns. Clouding up 
with some fleecy clouds, We are about a mile from the preci} - 
tous face of the mt. 
ct. 23., 8 a.m,, bar, 600 ft., humidity 92 percent. Fleecy 
clouds, looked a little like rain last night but did noc rain, 1t is 
still this a. m. The old Garizar mill above here is a quaint old 
ruin, built by a trusting Mexican, on the word of aman who said 
a rasty iron seam was & old vein, built at a fine waterhole where 
water was plentiful, seeping out of rocks, the solid stone house 
well. Saw onefruit, the firstseen. The 23rdigot to Cayuca ranch 
at 2.30, 1000 ft. alt.,humidity 58 percent. Mules ate even the 
twics of Turnera. Last evening we weut 2 miles up the big bar- 
ranca coming back by the water cano” and getting a great load 
of stuff, mostly shrubs. The Franseria is $ ft. high, with woody 
