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[[underlined]] July 25 [[/underlined]] Left Visalia at 8 A.M. with aneroid at 0 feet, 30 inches. Kept a general Easterly course [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] through the oaks (Quercus tobata) on level ground, grassy and clear under the trees and quite pretty, Small streams and ditches cut through the country so that it is well watered. We enter the foothills at Pagues store 20 miles east of Visalia, (aneroid 250) here Quercus [cerulia?] and Q. wislizenia begin and lobata does not leave the flat ground along the stream, practicaly stops though a few straggle up the narrow river valley among the foot hills.

[[underlined]] July 26. [[/underlined]] Left Three Rivers at 1 P.M. and followed up E. Fork of Koweah River, Aneroid read 550 at 3 Rivers at 1 P.M. 1350 at bridge where we cross the river 8 miles above, and 2250 where we camped 8 miles farther, on hill above river at a [[strikethrough]] rach [[/strikethrough]] ranch called Cane Flat. In scrub oak country all the way, with thick brush of Ceanothus and Fermontia and Arctostaphylus & Esculus.
The road after crossing to N. side of River follows along the steep south face of the ridge parallel with river. The river is a roaring little stream often not 30 feet wide tumbling over rocks in bottom of a deep, narrow canon of granite. The road is dug in side of mountain often 1000 feet above river.

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Transcribed -@siobhanleachman