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the barometer. It was not more than 200 or 300 feet above the lakes. The whole trip was through beautiful open yellow pine forest with grassy parks, long ridges & streamless valleys but no water. Juniper & nut pine grow on south slopes all the way except over the highest part of the divide. 

Artemisia arbuscula is abundant in the parks near the divide and a patch of A. cava grows in a park a mile east of Lake La Jara. Artemisia tridentata is common in places & frigida all across.

Lake La Jara is an alkalie pond 1/4 of a mile long and 15 feed deep. A big dam 30 feet high has been built across the lower end to make a reservoir of the lake. Lots of ducks & grebes & coots & snipe on the lake. The forest is full of fine lumber trees & ought to be put in good shape for harvesting the ripe timber & dead trees.

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Sept. 17, Remained at the lakes shooting ducks & other birds. Migration is in full blast & many species of ducks & snipe are here, but I was surprised to find a brood of downy young of the Ruddy duck & another brood that could [[strikethrough]]nts [[/strikethrough]] not fly.
At noon the horses came into camp silently & foot loose - the bell & bobbles having been stolen while they were out feeding.

Fearing this was only an unsuccessful attempt to run off the horses we thought best to move camp to a place where we could picket them near us, so filled our keg at the shallow lake, where the muddy water was less alkaline than at the deeper lake & came back a mile or two on the road we had come & camped in a park of the yellow pine woods. Gramma & other short grass is abundant. The woods are beautiful & an undescribed species of chipmunk lives around camp. 
Found a well of fairly drinkable alkalie water half a mile from camp.