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[[Underlined]] Camp Creek[[/Underlined]]
gray & blue & yellow clays, or soft rock. The sides of the buttes are perfectly bare of vegetation, much cut & scared up, steep and all round as pretty bad lands as I ever saw. Lava rock caps the tallest butte & broken pieces have fallen down. A [[strikethrough]] black [[/strikethrough]] dark colored pomice or scaria full of irrigular pieces & blocks of other rock of  volcamic origin forms ledges. It is light & porus. The fossil beds are considerably tilted.
[[Underlined]] July 2 [[/Underlined]] Followed down Camp Creek Valley a few miles & then crossed over a ridge to the south & into a big dry basin & then over another ridge to [[Underlined in red]] [[Strikethrough]] Camp [[/Strikethrough]] 12 mile Creek [[/Underlined in red]] & camped for the night. Passed some more clay beds in Camp Creek Valley 
Dry, sagebrush country all the way with lava cliffs all around.
Came about 19 miles
[[Underlined]] July 3 [[/Underlined]] Continued up through the big sagebrush basin past about 8 miles of marsh & alkalie flat with a large creek coming from the lake at upper end, & then turned S.E. over a slight rise and down to [[Underlined in red]] Buck Creek. [[/Underlined in red]] Followed up this to near its head & camped at the head of one of its branches.
Some sonoran elements in valley. Amphispiza seen. Sage grouse common. Aneroid busted. 
Obsidian flakes all over valley & some arrow heads.
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