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[[underlined]] To Albuquerque [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 20 [[/underlined]]. Found the country around Lamy nut pine & juniper hills, rather barren. A little to the west the middle of the valley opens out & is grassy or barren. At the little town of Cerralos we ar near the north end of the Tuerto Mts, which are steep peaks nearly as high as the Sandias with tall timber of some kind over their tops.  A trip from Espanola down to Cerrilos, then into the Tuerto Mts. than to the Sandias & Manzanas is worth making.

At the Rio Grande we strike the pueblos & farming country all along. Lots of fields of alfalfa are just being cut but most other crops are gathered. The cottonwoods along the Rio Grande bottoms are a golden belt. Large ponds of overflow water stand on the low parts of the river flats & ducks are thick on some of these.

Reached Albuquerque at 1:30 P.M. & have to wait till 2 A.M. for train to El Paso.

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[[underlined]] To El Paso [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct.21 [[/underlined]]. Left Albuquerque at 6 A.M. with a hard frost on the grass & ice on shallow ponds. A little scattered mesquite is the only trace of Lower Sonoran. Just upon reaching Polvadera the first patch of Larrea was seen on south slopes of a black lava mesa & some Bacebaris in side gulches of valley & a few bushes of Prosopis pubescens.

At Soccoro Larrea becomes common over black mesas, both mesquites large & common on flats. Rhus microphylla and Ephedra trifurcata common & Bacebaris abundant & so all along to San Marcial.

The San Mateo Mts. west of San Marcial are high with yellow aspens over the top. A patch of aspens also appear on Old Baldy of the Magdalenas. The Polvaderos are low & bare. The Black Range is too far to the S.W. to show more than a heavy black ridge. The near by [[Fra Olcatabols??]] are a low, bare ridge without timber. Yucca radiosa grows over their tops. The Caballos are another low, bare range without timber.