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relics & "putrified" specimens. Explains the lava rock formations as caused by a great "volcanic corruption". Says the boulders along the river do not belong here. They have come from some foreign country. He can not get Washington located - can not separate it from Washington state.

Set traps for Perognathus but found no signs of other mammals. S. beldingi comes down to near the mouth of Pine Cr. but we found none in the valley.

John Day River is not quite as large as the Big Horn. It is rapid, muddy, & crooked. The canyon is along here open & valleylike with overflowed bottoms in places. Lava cliffs & buttes rise 2000 feet. Rocky & stony ridges slope down to the valley. The soil is dry & baked & the plants are desert like. A few strips of junipers grow along rocky slopes. Willows grow along the river banks. The few trees are evidently introduced as most of them are Lombardy poplar. Sagebrush & Bigelavias are conspicuous valley shrubs. The flood lands are all in rye.

Transcription Notes:
Perognathus=pocket mouse, S. beldingi=Spermophilus beldingi=Belding's ground squirrel, Bigelavias=rabbit brush.