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[[left page blank]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Stanford to Grafton & Belt. [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Aug. 29. [[/underlined]] Shot a skunk at camp in the night & caught 3 Arvicolas. Got a late start. Traveled all day over prairie Saw a few willows on creek at Stanford. No trees. So smokey we could not see a mile. Grass short but good feed most of the way. Lots of sheep & cattle & horses. Saw one Coyote & one Badger & lots of Spermophiles. lots of longspurs and shorelarks & Pooecetes. A little rain in the night made the gumbo slightly gummy in morning. Cloudy all day & cool. Camped at Grafton, a stage station [[underlined]] Aug. 30 [[/underlined]] Started in a drizzling rain but it did not last long & did not make the gumbo very bad. Cleared off by noon but still smokey. Same kind of country continued - prairie and long ridges and valleys. Passed Geyser and Cora - stage stations & P.O. Passed through Armington and Belt and camped 2 miles below Belt on creek. Saw a few Pseudotsuga along rocky creek banks near Armington & along Otter Creek is a good row of trees of Populus balsamifera & P. angustifolia & willow. High sandstone ridges border the narrow valley and coal crops out under the sandstone & is mined to some extent. At Armington a Sonoran element appears, though weak. Shepherdia argentea, Helianthus annuus, & Opuntia appear for the first since leaving the Musselshell valley. also Glycerrhizea. Saw one Tamias in valley at Belt.
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"Glycerrhizea" should be Glycyrrhiza but transcribed as written.