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Walking fairly good but it would be difficult, if possible to get a horse across.  Found a small pond of salt water near shore opposite camp.  Could see no other water.
Mirages were common all around us, & made what looked like lakes of blue water. can not see plainly low down, the air is all a tremble next to the ground.  Not a very hot day, up to 73[[degree symbol]] at 1 P.M.  We did not take a drink until across the valley, did not get thirsty.
Saw no animal life while crossing the bare flat except a few flies around the water hole mentioned.  They seemed to be the same flies that swarmed around Owen Lake.  Their larvae, or some other small worm lived in the puddle & made trails & holes in the mud.
In crossing the flat we struck from camp (at Bennetts Wells) north 79[[degree symbol]] east, (compass bearing), about 5 [[degree symbol]] S. of E.  Went to end of a narrow cañon half a mile back from salt flat but could not get up it.  
Then followed along base of Mts. about a mile S. to another cañon & up it a mile to where it had an abrupt [[strikethrough]] drop [[/strikethrough]] rise of 50 feet that we could not get over.  Then climbed over & down into another canon east of it & followed up it a mile or

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