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June 22, 1891
Ranch 1/2 mile south of Kernville, Kern Co., Cal.
We left Canebrake Ranch this morning, following the main road downward until we reached the bottom of the valley on the south Fork of Kern River. We proceeded down the branch of this river until we reached the fork and then turned northward up the North Fork to this place. 
The wind continues to blow from the west. Along the South Fork the vegetation is bent permanently eastward, along the north fork northward.
. [[underlined]] Yucca[[strikethough]]s[[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] arborescens [[/insertion]] [[/underline]] continues to grow in abundance down to the valley bottom near its junction with the South Fork, and nearly all its characteristic vegetation in the desert accompanies it.
This valley of the South Fork of the Kern River is a transition region between desert and interior floras, the line of greatest change lying at the western limit of the yuccas. 
The following plant characteristic of the desert ^ [[insertion]] and found on the east slope of the pass [[/insertion]] were not seen west.
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