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and in full view. It has a well walked timberline, but only scattering timber. There are pines on it larger than Piñon & probably P. flexilis. The sides of the peak are very steep & all slide rock. Mr. Bell, of Cloverdale, tells me that it is the highest peak in the state & that it is 13200 feet high. He says the Surveyor General has it down wrong & gives Jefferson Peak as higher but that it is a mistake & that Arc Dome is much the highest. Mr. Bell adds to the statement of a number of others that there are no Tree Squirrels in this country.

This divide seems to be formed by the two ranges coming close together & filling in between them.  The ranges go on south parallel & nearer together. The south slope is steeper than the north & the country more rocky & broken. Piñon, Cedars, & Circocarpus are thicker. Springs are numerous, the creek is dry most of the way as far down as we came. Camped 3 miles below the divide. Made up 6 skins, set traps along the creek bed where there is brush & among rocks. Piñon Jays are in large flocks, saw 2 Sage hens.

There were lots of big Rabbit tracks in the basin on head of Indian Creek. They look too large for Lepus texianus, Suspect they are L. campestris.

A clear, warm day,

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reviewed -@meg_shuler Also reviewed. Added in one space between words. -@siobhanleachman