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lers and emigrants; who have taken this means to 
immortalize their names, and let posterity know that 
they were on their way to California. Near this over- 
hanging rock is the largest and finest tank or pool of 
water to be found about here. It is only reached by 
clambering on the hands and knees fifteen or twenty 
feet up a steep rock. Over it projects a gigantic 
boulder, which, resting on or wedged between other 
rocks, leaves a space of about four feet above the sur- 
face of the water. On the under side of this boulder 
are fantastic designs in red paint, which could only 
have been made by persons lying on their backs in 
this cool and sheltered spot. One of these, a singular 
