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We arrived at Monticello sone 13th, which was a Saturday. 
On the following Monday made a ad trip eastward 
from town extending into ae atone ma Cany On Tuesday 
we secured a team which took us up to the ee Mountains 
or as they are oftener called the Blue Mountains, and camped 
near Mr. Innes’ sawmill. The Abajo Mountains are much 
lower than the La Sal Mountains, the highest point reached being 
a little over 11,000 feet. In other words, they reach to about 
timber-line and only a few alpine plants were found on the 
very summits. On the eastern side, the slopes are covered 
first with scrub-oaks and bull-pines (Pinus scopulorum), higher 
up with aspen and Engelmann spruce. The northern slopes are 
more wooded. The wood consists mostly of Engelmann spruce 
mixed with Douglas fir. The southern slopes are mostly treeless 
and covered by a coarse bunch-grass, Festuca arizonica. F 
this it appears that the Abajo Mountains, although further away, 
have a woody flora more like that of the mountains of Colorado 
than the La Sal Mountains. In the part we visited of the 
latter, we saw neither the Douglas fir nor the bull-pine and 
a man at the sawmill there, who was more intelligent than 
Rockies and of Oregon, told me that they were not there. The 
herbaceous flora of the Abajo Mountains was also strictly Rocky 
Mountain. We were greatly surprised in finding Adoxa and 
Trautvetteria ae On August 24th, Mr. Innes kindly took us 
down to Montic 
The ae. a Professor Garrett returned to Salt Lake 
City, where his school was to open on the next Monday. I took 
the stage to Bluffs, forty-seven miles away. The road between 
Monticello and Grayson led across several deep canyons and 
passed mostly through the scrub-oak and cedar-pinyon belts. 
From Grayson to near Bluffs it led over table-lands, first covered 
by more or less scattered sage-brush; further south this was sup- 
planted by the black-bush, Coleogyne, and other shrubs. 
Towards San Juan River the land became more sandy, and 
shrubby species of Eriogonum became more common. A mile 
or two from Bluffs the road entered a canyon, leading steeply 
