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June 27, 1891.
Crane Lake, Antelope Valley, Majave Desert, Cal.

We left Willow Spring this morning and took a road westward along the north side of Antelope Valley to a point about eight miles east of Liebre Ranch. We there crossed to the south side of the valley and proceeded westward to Crane Lake, about four miles west of Liebre Ranch.
[[underlined]] Larrea mexicana [[/underlined]] ceases about five miles west of Willow Spring, the main body of it at two or three miles less than that.
[[underlined]] Yucca arborescens [[/underlined]] (brevifolia) and [[underlined]] Bigelovia graveolens [[/underlined]] continue in the bottom of the valley to a point about three miles east of Liebre Ranch, the Bigelovia extending farther than the yuccas.  Westward still farther and [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] along the lower side slopes of the valley for a few miles eastward on either side the natural vegetation is composed almost entirely of grasses and other herbs, a vegetation similar to that west of the yuccas in the valley of the