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Show • 51 Ex. Doc. No. L11. to the usual plants, was that rare one cevallia. sinuata, gauva parviflora, Cl'nothcra sinnata, and a spcci 'S of wild liquorice, but with a root not wect, like the European kind. The latitude of thi. camp by 10 altitlul<'S of polaris, 33° 41' 1911 • Longitude of this camp, 18 observations, cast and we l stars, 7/L 0 m. 57s. October 8.-Can~p G9. -The valley of the De 1 Norte, as we ach-a~ ce, lo. cs what little capacity for agriculture it po scssed. The rtYer commence to gather its fe ble force into the smallest co1npas. to work its w:-~y around the w stern ba e of l'ra Cristobal mountain. The Chihuahua roall runs on tlte eastern side, and that part of it i the tlreaded jornado or lhe trnc1ers, where they mu~t go most seasons of the year ninety miles without water. Our road over hill and dale led u through a great variety of Yegctalion, all totally diO'crent from that of the United Stale.. Today's ob ervations of the plants may be taken as a fair spe cimen of the southern part of New .Mexico. First, there were cacti in encl- 1 Yariety and of gigantic :izr, our new and disagre<lblc friend, the larrea ~'fexicana, Ji'remontia vcrmi ularis, obione cane cens, tc aria Lorcalis, dioti · Janata, franseria acanthorarpa, several varieties of mezquitc, and among the plants p<>culiar to th ground pas c<l over, \vere several composittc, a species of malva ronvolvu-. lu , an unknown shrub found in the beds of all dcscrtcll rivers; larger grarna, as food for horses, nearly equal to oats, and dalca formosa, a much Lranced shrub, three feet high, with bcatiful purple flower . The infinite variety of cacti could not be brought howe for ana]y is, and this clepartrncnt of the Flora must l'e left to the enterpri e of some traveller, with greater mean of transportation than we posse sed. A great many were skct ·heel, but not with sufli ient preci ion to classify them. The table lands, reaching to the base of the mountains to the we t, are of sand and large, rouncl p bblcs, terminating in ~te p hills from a quarter to a half mile from the river, rappcct with scams of basalt. Soine curious specimens of soft sanJ stone were seen to clay, of all shapes antl forms, from a Latch of roll. to a boned turkey. October 9.-The country becomes broken, and the vallry nar- ~ rows into a caJ1on which sweeps at the ba ·e of Fra Cri. tobaJ moun- l tain, making it necc, sary to rise to the table lands on the west, ide, ~ which we found travcr:c·d by deep arroyos, cro\vned on tl1cir sum- 1114il by basalt, underlnyed by sand ~lone. I hot two or three quails, (ortix sqnamosa?) differing from ours in their plumage, but cntirl'ly sirnilnr to them in their hauits. We al o kill eel a hawk n'scmlJ I i ug, i 11 a II r spects, our sparrow- hawk, ex ·cpt in the plumage, which, like the quail, was that of the landscape, lead co!orecl. Game in New :i\fexiro is almost extinct, if it ever c.· istecl to any extent. To-day we saw a few blac·k tailed raLLits, and ]a l night Stanly killed a common Virginia deer. Three di tinct ranges of mountains, on th west side of the ri ver, are in view to-day, running apparently nortlnve t, and nearly parallel to each o lher. The 1 esscr range commences at Sec oro; the |