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on the surface & flowing through the main gaps of the Alabamas & spreading out in fan shape over the slope below the mouth of the canon at the lower edge of the Alabamas. The greater waterfall on the Sierras has carried the white granite down to & through the Alabamas & covers the [[strikethrough]] plain [[/strikethrough]] slope below the latter to the exclusion of the softer red granite of the latter.

The red granite of the Alabamas weathers into curious shapes and a hugh boulder on the upper end of Lone Pine [[strikethrough]] cr [[/strikethrough]] pass looks strikingly like an elephant from one point of view. 

In the evening we all went up to Christmas tree performance at Lone Pine -

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Bailey & I observed this date by skinning the animals on hand. In the evening we went up town to look on at a dance. The music furnished by a local