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of chapperal. Grain, olives, Eucalyptus, apricots, alfalfa & beans are the main products. Even the hills are covered with sage, Hasocleia[[?]], Artemisia california, & a few Quercus agrifolia & could be mapped as Lower Sonoran.
Only the distant ranges north & south show dense chapperal of Upper Sonoran. Continuing westward down open valleys the country is similar, but more fertile & better cultivated on to Oxnard. 
Besids  grain & occasional orchards there are extensive fields of beens  & between Sarnis & Oxnard thousands of acres of sugar beets. Also much alfalfa & numerous groves of large eucalyptis. The mountains have disappeared on the south but are high far to the north. A cool breeze comes in from the coast & vegetation takes on a [[strikethrough]]more [[/strikethrough]]fresher & greener appearance.
Oxnard is a [[vide?]] town of small houses full of trees, eucalyptus, peppers. We soon cross the river & go through more & bigger fields of sugar beets & beans before reaching the coast at Ventura.