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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
and put on exhibition. They were every¬ 
where, from the merest bush in size to 
trees twenty and thirty feet in height. 
In form they are not unlike a spreading 
apple tree, with strongly contorted and 
twisted branches. Then there were many 
oaks of different kinds, the encino robles 
or everlasting oak, the white oak, and the 
little black variety. There were a dozen 
kinds I knew nothing of in my limited 
vocabulary of forest trees. The pines 
were beautiful, and in many places forty 
to fifty merchantable trees to the acre, 
straight as an arrow, and without a limb 
for sixty or seventy feet from the 
ground. In one or two clusters I noticed 
groups of pines like those an old lumber¬ 
man once pointed out to me in the for¬ 
ests of Oregon as good mast timber. I 
have seen the same repeated dozens of 
