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■water in many places^ but not more than 12 feet high; the cottdn- 

 wbods are generally a. foot or more in diameter, in irregular 

 groveSj not m'ore than 100 yards wide along down the 

 higher hills in the back ground on each side look half green ^ithi 

 the bushes of the creOsote plant, and the mountains here are appa- 



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route for the last few days has been very crooked, so that had we 

 a straight route, we could have come through the canon in twd 

 days, or one and a half instead of four. The chain of mountains 

 continue alongj on the right bank of the Pedro, so that there would 

 be rough hills to cross from this point to the gap between the. 

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Pedro, and cros'sed the Gila three miles from camp; near the inouth 

 of tKe San Pedro is a good patch of grass. We kept dbwn th« 

 right bank of the Gi!,a until we entered the fifth canon, where we 

 drossed it frequently, and encamped on its right b-ink, with scanty 

 grass. A-bout six miles below the San Pedro we passed a good 

 camp under some diluvial cliff; here, we are told, is about our last 

 grass from this to California. The river is slightly larger here than 

 where we first saw it, although we were told otherwise; it has 

 about 18 inches water on the shoals here, and canoes might pass 

 down it very readily, and good sized boats, if it was not for the 



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Our course was a little north of west; distance 18 miles; 



intains in peaks, composed mostly of basalt, came near to 

 the river- the diluvial beds, indurated iiito rocks, are torn and hto^ 

 ken in every direction, 'indicating great violence and irregularity 

 in their displacement. There appears tq, be a subsequent bed of 

 diluvion along here not yet displaced; tile bottdras of the river 

 are composed of the usual clay, in a state of powder or dust, and 

 which is undermined in every direction by animals of the rat kind, 

 so that it is unpleasant to man or mule to ride off the beaten tri^ck. 

 Along the very edge of the water of the river the grass and other 

 verdure grew luxuriantly; on all else the vegetation was as usual, 

 the mesquite and its kindred plants, and the creosote covering the 

 mountains to their tops; no trees visible on the mountains. Signs 

 of Ihe wild hoff, and tbe deer, and the turkey weJre aumerous; the 



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