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border and yellow pines on top of the ridges and on cold slopes.

Fine grass all along. beautiful country & very few people in it. A few old reservoirs have filled up and the old houses are generally abandoned. A few sheep and cattle range over the country but not enough to affect the grass.

[[underlined]]Sept.28[[/underlined]]. Leaving the reservoir camp we turned north over low nut pine ridges with a few pinus ponderosa scattered along and on cold slopes nearly solid ponderosa. Lots of blue juniperus scopulorum is here scattered in with the monosperma. Came down into deep gulch to ^[[Cebolla]] Sebollo Spring in a gumbo valley. Then down this valley N.W. for about 6 or 8 miles, then south along the edge of the lava beds to Punta Malpais, a Mexican ranch out on the edge of the great plain bordering the lava flow. Reached the ranch after dark & camped, as we found no water after leaving the Sebollo Cr. to the ranch windmill