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[[underlined]] Dec. 19. [[/underlined]] Staid at camp all day & made up the skins of things left over from the last two days.  Clear and pleasant. Cold in morning.

[[underlined]] Dec. 20. [[/underlined]] Wilkinson sent up Dikeman's other aneroid. I took it in morning and went up through town, up Lone Pine Creek and into a cañon of the Sierra Nevada.  Took altitudes of all the places where I had caught mammals and of different plant zones.  Went up to 4000 feet above camp. to lower edge of Pinus ponderosa & Abies --- and Oaks.  Found no Cedars, Pinus monophylla is abundant. Snow is 6 inches deep up where Pinus ponderosa begins. There are some tracks but I could not tell what of.  Saw a Mt. Sheep's horn in canon and some Deer tracks.

The Sierras are all of hard, white granite.  The Alabamas are of soft coarse, rusty colored granite.  It is 3 miles from the back of the last to foot of Sierras, but the great, white granite boulders from the Sierras have come down through the Alabamas to town.

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Reviewed. Added some missing capitals. -@siobhanleachman