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[[underlined]] Portales to Roswell [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 8 [[/underlined]]  Left Portales at 10:40 & reached Roswell at 2 PM.

From Portales to the Pecos river is a gradual slope with two slight escarpments near the river.
The country is rather level except for frequent [[strikethrough]] ridges [[/strikethrough]] strips of sand dunes.  Much of the soil is soft yellow sand.  The grass is dry & dead from last years crop.  There has been no rain this year & there is little green & almost no flowers.  Scrubby mesquites grow over most of the country & at the river become larger.  Lyssium, Cordylia & other new plants begin 10 miles east of the river near the second bench.  Larrea grows on valley mesas where we strike the Pecos R.   Mt. Capitan stands up 40 miles to the west.  The Pecos is almost dry but Spring Creek is a good sized little river near Roswell.

Set traps & shot Geomys castanops, S. spilosoma, & Otocoris.

Stopped at Central Hotel. 
A hot day.  Lots of flowing wells.