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-Left Page- For the three mornings at Elsinore the fog covered the Santa Ana Mts. to the base but soon lifted after 8 or 9 oclock. It sometimes even hides the lake and the hills to the east. but the valley does not get much fog at this season. The winter climate is said to be delightful here. [[end page]] [[start page]] The hills east of Elsinore are the same as noted before and are probably Lower Sonoran. The sulphur springs & hot baths at Elsinore are the great attraction & in winter the climate is said to be fine & the duck hunting good. There are lots of ducks on the lake now, mainly cinnamon teal, some gadwell & a few mallards. One nest of a teal was found with 2 young & 4 eggs but no young ducks were seen on the lake. A few coots and dabchicks were seen and a flock of about 30 glassy ibises, some blue herons & a night heron lots of killdeers & several black necked stilts. There were evidently attracted to the lake in part by the swarms of lake flies breeding in the muddy margins. Pocket gophers are numerous in the sandy shores of the lake but the four specimens caught do not show any marked local variation.
Transcription Notes:
I'm quite impressed by my own ability to recognize the some of the words written here, but I'm unsure if some of the are correctly spelled because the letters are illegible. However, I do think the words themselves are correct, because at least contextually the Santa Ana Mountains and Lake Elsinore are in California, and you could feasibly see the mountains from the Lake.
Also my handwriting is quite similar, so some of the words appeared perhaps to have one letter, when in actuality it was another that was stylistically similar, particularly in regards to the way "n" is written.