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where it comes from base of high, rocky peaks south of the pass.  It is a small stream of good water, flows down a rocky bed and dries up in the sand half a mile below where we camped.  The dry bed continues on down to Canebreak where water comes out again, then dries up before reaching the wide valley where it joins the South Fork of Kern River.  From the summit of Walker Pass down to Canebreak the slope is nearly N.W.  

It is an often trough-like slope, rather uniform gravely soil, grass & small vegetation mostly eaten off by sheep & cattle.  Along the bottom of the valley sloping N.W. the two slopes bearing the extremes of [[strikethrough]] plant [[/strikethrough]] high and low zones, (N.E. & S.W.) meet and in places overlap.  By taking the average limit of species in bottom of valley the limit on the N.W. slope can be determined with reasonable accuracy.

[[underlined]] Aneroid [[/underlined]] read of summit at 11 A.M. 5100, at our camp at 12 M. 4400, at Canebreak (July 3) 3900.

[[underlined]] Plants [[/underlined]] on N.W. slope below summit.
Pinus monophylla. only at the summit and lower on N.E. slopes.
Pinus (sugar pine), extends from top of peaks down to 3700 ft. or lower on N.E. slopes, is not in the valley.
Juniperus    , scarce.  some grows at 4500.
Artemisia tridentata, comes down the valley on N.W. slope to 3900, down to 3000 on N.E.

Transcription Notes:
Very unsure of [[malss?]] near bottom of page. -@siobhanleachman Pretty sure it's "peaks" written very messily. No other changes. -@meg_shuler