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[[underlined]] May 19. [[/underlined]]  High Bridge over the Pecos is on the new cut off.  It is 322 feet high and 2180 feet long, spanning the top of the canyon.  We stopped with Mr. & Mrs. King, the section people at east end of bridge.
Went down into the Pecos Canyon and followed up the river about 2 miles.  The Canyon is about 2000 feet wide & 300 feet deep with steep walls, often perpendicular to the rivers edge, of soft, stratified, fossiliferous lime.  Numerous side canyons & gulches cut down to the river.  A narrow sand flat borders the river part way, but it has all been flooded lately.  The river rose 36 feet in 1 1/2 hours, but has gone back to normal high water.  A few trees & reeds brush fill the canyon bottom.
Two large springs pour into the river near the bridge.  The lime rock is full of big caves and caverns
The top of the country is a limestone mesa, very barren and desert like with abundance of Cactus, Agave, Yuccas, Dasilerion & Fonquerias.