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THE CONDOR 
VOX. XII 
having gone over a rather uninteresting country, dry and barren. Aiken left us 
that afternoon, taking the train for home. Durand and I stopped there until next 
morning, and then took a road which went around through the hills to the north, 
and finally brought us back to the Arkansas River, about half a mile below Park 
dale station, and above the Grand Canon of the Arkansas. The road had taken us 
up through a somewhat rocky, dry canon, and then through Eight Mile Park, 
mostly open country, with scattered cedars, pinons, and yellow pines, which grew 
Fig. 12. MAP OF PORTION OF COLORADO COVERFD BY F. R. WARREN IN HIS COXXECTING 
TRIP DURING THE SUMMER OF 1909 
more abundantly on the hills a little distance away from the road. We crossed the 
river at this place, and camped close by early in the afternoon, and explored the 
country thereabouts, though interrupted for a while by a very heavy shower. On 
the low hills near camp were cedars and pinons, with a few pines; and on the 
open ground grew yucca, a small tree cactus, and rabbit brush ( Chrysothamnus sp.). 
The next day we traveled at first a few miles in open country, and then 
turned up Copper Gulch, which w r as followed for several miles. This was mainly 
