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for the night. We had a beautiful camp place among mesquites [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Prosopis glandulosa [[/insertion]] with abundance of grass and enjoyed the glorious night under the more glorious stars. The valley is overstocked and the grass killed out over most of it, but a broad zone of gayetta and saccatone surrounds the flats and supports a large number of horses & cattle & [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] Lepus texanus [[/insertion]] Jack rabbits. The rabbits have gathered in the grassy land and a dozen at at a time could be seen feeding. Other rodents were also abundant and the sandy soil was tracked up with rats & mice. [[red checkmark]] Dipodomys spectabilis mounds and [[red checkmark]] Neotoma houses are a conspicuous feature of the landscape.

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