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hills [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] rising from 700 to 1200 feet higher. The park-like open country is covered by a [[strikethrough]] short sod [[/strikethrough]] close sod & watered by many springs near its upper border. These flow with the main slope to the west into Lerma Valley. The smoke of the [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] charcoal pits rises everywhere about on the dark wooded hillside, showing pale against the sombre foliage of Abies religiosa & Pinus montezumae which are the most abundant trees. 

Notwithstanding the cold raw, climate on these ridges, mice abound here in greatest abundance and seven species were secured.

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