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It contains a large prairie-dog town, and, constituting the receptacle of an extensive drainage, 

 would be passed with much difficulty during the rainy season. A series of springs were dis- 

 covered near the middle of the valley, and about one mile south of the line. They form 

 a little creek, but are lost in the sand in a run of less than two miles. 



Sketch No. 15.— A near view of the San Luis mountains where they are crossed by the 

 line ; sketched from the intersection of the line and the road leading from Janos to Santa 



Cruz. 



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16.— This view is sketched from the monument near San Luis springs, looking 

 eastward. The flag shows where the line crosses the mountain. 



Sketch No. 17 is taken from the same point as No. 16, but in the opposite direction, 

 top of the mountain on the back-ground, directly over the monument, is the first over which 

 the line runs near the Gruadalupe Pass. 



Sketch No. 18 is a near view of the mountain whose top rests on the horizon in sketch No. 

 17. The flag indicates where it is struck by the line. 



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No. 18. 



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20 is drawn from the point indicated by flag in No. 19. It looks westward and 

 the single peak in the back-ground belongs to the mountain ridge west of San Bernardino • 

 and the sierras still further off are the San Jose and Espinola, on the left and rio-ht 

 respectively. 



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through the Guadalupe Pass. 



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where the line crosses the road 



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along the boundary, and giving a nearer view of the peak seen from the GuadaluiDe canon 

 and represented in sketch No. 20. 



Sketch No. 23.^ — A hack view taken from the same point as JSTo, 22, hut looking- eastward 

 towards the Guadalupe canon. 



Sketch No. 24, — In this the observer again looks west, and is shown where the line crosses 

 the first mountain-ridge west of San Bernardino. The mountain on the left of the flao- is 

 the peak referred to in sketches Nos. 20 and 22. 



Sketch No. 25, — This view is sketched from the point indicated by the fla<^ in Sketch No. 

 24. The high mountain on the left fore-ground represents the before-mentioned peak. The 

 high sierra in the back-ground on the flag is the San Jose ; that on the right the Sierra de 

 Espinola. Eain-water was found at the foot of the hill where the flag stands, and was the 

 onlj water near the line between San Bernardino and Rio San Pedro, a distance of fifty-five 

 miles. The Bio San Pedro flows along the eastern base of the Sierra de Espinola. 



Sketch No. 26 is a view taken at the foot of the hill on which the flag stands in sketch No. 

 25 ; it looks west along the parallel. From this hill, as far as the banks of the Rio San Pedro 

 the line runs over a rolling prairie of a light, sandy soil, sometimes covered with bushes, some- 

 times bare, and fine patches of pasturage occurring here and there. 



Sketch No. 27. — View looking west alontr the line from from flag-stafi" in sketch No. 26. 



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Sketch No. 28. — Sketched from flag in view No. 27, also looking westward. The mountains 

 on the left edge of which the flag rests, and marks the line, are the Sierra de Espinola. 



Sketch No. 29. — This view looks westward, and is taken on the east bank of the Rio San 

 Pedro, where it is crossed by the line. At this point, approaching from the east, the traveller 



