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[[underlined]] To Devils River [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]July 19[[/underlined]]

Loaded up & moved camp, stopping at Juno to get a horse shod, then down the valley 13 miles to where the Devils River rises from a hundred big springs & camped on its bank under big pecan trees.

The river is fed by springs, or creeks, that come out of the bank from under the layers of limestone and in the first half mile becomes a rapid stream some 50 feet wide & one to 3 feet deep according to slope.  The water is cool & transparent but contains considerable [[strikethrough]] lime [[/strikethrough]] mineral (carbonate of lime probably) but no more than do the wells of the country.  It is a beautiful stream, & full of fish, bass, sunfish, suckers, catfish etc. A forest of magnificent old pecan trees shades the river & the narrow flats on each side, [[strikethrough]]&[[/strikethrough]] making a royal camping place - a cool, shady oasis in the mesquite desert of the valley, as rare as the bubbling and gurgling of cool spring water.

Aneroid at Juno 1900 - at camp 17. on top of side mesa 2100.