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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Alpine [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] May 23. [[/underlined]] Found Alpine a wretched little railroad town in the middle of a big, barren valley, surrounded by low mountains. Got a team & drove out to the ranch of Judge Brockenbrow 3 miles south of town in a corner of the mts. Found it a beautiful place among live oaks with rocky slopes & cliffs rising abruptly 2000 feet from the house. In part the ranch looks out over the smooth valley. Set traps around base of rock cliff. Shot a Lynx [[underlined]] May 24. [[/underlined]] Went to top of the highest peak near the ranch, - about 6000 feet. From it we could see rough peaks & ridges on all sides. The whole country seems a mass of low, either barren, rough & rocky mts. of volcanic origin. The rock is hard and perhaps metamorphic in places & again porous and evidently of late origin. No good craters seen. Scattered junipers high up. No solid timber, just scattered live oaks, brush cactus, Yuccas & Dasylirion & Agaves.