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red porphyritic pebbles and green stone, all in the shape of pebbles the body is composed of the same materials more finely divided into sand and gravel. N E by N, 3
Bluff red sandstone Dip N W by N 33
much broken & with thin decompasing layer. E by N 5. Very arid at least 4 miles with three or four large islands. Rotten sandstone in thin layers & shale a little Dip 5' N E. Angle 12°, N E 2. N side low & wooded sdst. hills on S side
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Leave at 1 A.M., and pull against a hard current for six hours when we take tea in the bank near the conglomerate bluff, a flight of swallowtail butterflies take place while we are there and I secure several 
Get a Sand hill crane, a hawk with black eyes new to me, see a bird singing and looking a good deal like a mocking bird

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also a beautiful [[insertion]] [[Myio.?]] pusillus [[/insertion]] sparrow dark, touched with yellow (al.) and another pair of thrushes. 
Get the egg of the pintail duck and an egg like the greenwing but which they tell [[?]] is of a duck I have not yet obtained. See a pretty slate, colored sparrow and a bird with a head like a cherry [[insertion]] [[waxwing?]] [[/insertion]] bird but no yellow or red in the wings - a fair wing springs up and sends the Russians with their big sail far ahead and we toil round a six mile bend where they sailed without oars about half past five reach the camp quite worn out with fatigue, the heat of the sun and hunger. Get a good dinner. Get [[Larriow?]] woman to mend our bidarra which is cut with drift wood skin three birds and