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by the regular Mineral King road to this point.
Until we reached the foot-hills the vegetation was similar to that about Visalia. In the first foot-hills [[underlined]] Quercus douglasii [[/underlined]] began.  Three Rivers lies at about  ft, according to Mr. Bailey, above Visalia.  I was thrown from my horse, and my aneroid damaged, just before lunch.

(Sunday) July 26, 1891
[[strikethrough]] Cane [[/strikethrough]] Kane's Flat[[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]], Tulare Co, Cal.
We left Three Rivers this afternoon at about 1 o'clock, after a portion of the forenoon had been spent collecting about Kaweah River opposite, or a short distance below, Three Rivers.  This place is, according to Mr. Bailey, about  ft higher than Visalia.

July 27, 1891. 
First Sequoia camp, Mineral King Road ^[[insertion]] Tulare Co,. Cal. [[/insertion]]

We reached this place this afternoon and went into camp by the stream that flows down the cañon into Kaweah River.  Here I saw for the first time [[underlined]] Sequoia gigantea [[/underlined]].