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[[underlined]] Chicago Lake to Hawksnest Butte. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 30 [[/underlined]], Struck east to main road near Martstonmoor, then north along the old Indian road for Ft. Yates & Totton to the Hawksnest Buttes, drove to the top and camped on almost the highest point of the butte, overlooking Carrington 8 mi. to the N.E.. Came about 25 miles.

Most of the way is over rather rough prairie, with numerous sloughs and lakes & tule marshes, ridges pretty steep and stony but mainly of good soil & luxuriant grass & prairie vegetation. The country is thinly settled much of the way & roads are poor and do not always connect between ranches. We drove some of the way over prairie, but without any trouble. Heavy rains have filled all the sloughs & water holes & mosquitos are swarming over the whole country.

A few scrubby little cottonwoods & some willows & chokeberry bushes were found along the borders of sloughs about midway of the distance, but otherwise Eleagnus is the only conspicuous shrub of the prairie, except the dwarf rose & a few woody based Amorphas & the abundant Artemisia frigida.