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& turned the channel to the W. Much lava has flown out & formed great beds & ridges below, but the volcano seems to have blown out a vast amount of cinders. The country all around, as well as the cone itself, is all fine black & red cinders, loose & easily heated & with little vegetation except pines & cedars. This cinder region seems to extend the range of all of its trees both higher & lower. Sunset Peak & a lot more nearby are all loose cinders & some are perfectly bare of vegetation.

The cedars, as well as Pinus ponderosa, have an unusual extension down to the N.E. towards the Little Colorado River. This extension is in a wide circle & on the black cinders region. 
P. ponderosa covers all the flat land between O'Leary & Smiths Spring & around the big parks east of O Leary, but cedars & Pinus edulis extend up the south sides of all the buttes that I passed to the tops.

Came around to my horse & started home at about 3 P.M. Reached the A1 camp below Partridge Spring a little before sundown. Found an Onychomys & 5 Hesperomys sonoriensis in my traps. Reset traps & camped at old log camp house. Saw droves of 3 & 11 & 12 & 15 Antelope. A hot day & water scarce. Saw 2 Bats in evening

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Reviewed. Checked species names & solved [[?]] -@siobhanleachman