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[[underlined]] Santa Barbara [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 31. [[/underlined]] Got a saddle horse & rode up past the old Mission, to the stone crusher quarry & tunnel & then up the trail to summit of Santa Ynez Mts. and along ridge to highest peak, [[blank space]], 3987 feet. 

I had no aneroid or contour map but by dividing the slope [[strikethrough]] slope [[/strikethrough]] into  halves & quarters could estimate approximate altitudes.

The lower 500 feet of the slope is largely open country with scattered live oak and tongues of chaparral in the gulches.  Parts of it are cultivated and groves of oranges, leimons, grapefruit & olives grow up to its upper edge. Also [[insertion]] ^[[Temies?]] & [[/insertion]] a great variety of exotic trees and shrubs

Above this the Upper Sonoran Chaparral begins and runs to the top of the range in a dense mass, impenetrable except along trails.  A large element of northern species occur here [[image - 'insertion from below' mark]], or species that do not go much farther south.

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I am not sure about what the last insertion mark is indicating, so I added it as a symbol. - GigglePop