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The Panamint Mts. are bare & of various kinds & colors, red, yellow, blue & black & white. They [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] become lower to the south.  The strata dip to the east & the granite of the west side slopes across the valley and goes under the Panamint Mts.
We leave the salt flat about 10 miles south of P.O. Spring & begin a gradual ascent along the valley. At 20 miles from & 750 feet above P.O. Spring we come to a bare clay flat with good water standing in washed out tanks, where it had collected from the last rains. This is at Windy Gap where the road to Death Valley branches off. About 3 miles farther on we come to Lone Willow Spr. & camp at the tanks down in the valley a mile from the spring. Wheeler gives the distance from P.O. to Lone Willow Spr. as 29.25 miles, Dikemans rodometer makes it 23 miles, mine 22 m.  Dikeman did not follow the road all the way.  We reached Lone Willow a little before 6. Found a couple of prospecters at the spring but no sign of Palmer & party.
Larrhea is abundant here, also the small leaved Atriplex & Opuntia arborescens. Nelson killed a Falco mexicana & saw a Tamias leucurus. I got 2 lizzards. No feed about camp.
40[[degree symbol]] in morning, a warm day, [[underlined]] clear [[/underlined]], not very windy,

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Reviewed. Added in [[strikethrough]] text. Edited [[degree symbol]] for consistency with this and other Bailey projects, underlined "clear". -@siobhanleachman