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[[underlined]] June 25 [/underlined]] Got an early start and rode over to the mesa about 3 miles N.E. of camp and climbed to the top. Took the horses up to within 300 feet of the top and climbed over the rim rock on foot. The aneroid at camp and at foot of mesa read 6000 feet, where we left the horses 7000 feet, and on top of the mesa 7400. Farther back the swell of the mesa rises at least 100 feet higher. On the south & west the mesa stands up with a steep slope and bold rim rock border 1400 feet high. At a distance the slope seems very abrupt but on close examination offers ridges and spurs where a horse can be taken up, though there are few places where one can be taken over the rim. The edge of the mesa is fringed with a scattered forest of tall yellow pines that come down in places 400 or 500 feet and extend back as far on top as the land is rough & stony. Back of the pines is open plains with long sweeps of fine grass  The mesa is given on the Land Office map as Mesa del Agua de las Neguas.