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was 16 ft. 7 in in [[strikethrough]] di [[/strikethrough]] circumference.  The other form grows at a higher altitude (from the summit to about three hundred feet below), and is a smaller tree with usually oblong outline and a rounded top (apparently due to the continued tendency of the uppermost shoots to be broken by the wind) and a much larger heavier cone.  This latter form is the same seen on Frazier Mountain and appears to be the true [[underlined]] Pinus [[/underlined]] ponderosa [[underlined]] jeffreyi [[/underlined]].
The computed altitude of the summit that we reached is 5800 ft.  From this point we could look down up the western part of the Mojave Desert in the direction of Willow Spring.  Neither Mojave Butte nor the mountains south of Antelope Valley could be seen.
We descended by the same route.
The altitude of Tejon ranch was called 1450 

July 13, 1891.
Bakersfield, Kern County, Cal.
We left Tejon ranch this morning and took the direct road from there to Bakers-