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Show l• t ultu"t t '' ' ' Ex. Doc. No. 41. 77 In the sa.ntly arroyos where our ~res burn, that look as if tbt·y had been fo !·metl l.Htt a year or two srrH.:e, "as brokc·n pottery, and the r ·mains of a lar~e uuilding, similar in form, SllUt;lC\n('('' tllltl apparent antiquity to t'hose so oi'ttn dcs~ribcd. ~trolling over the hill alone·, in pursuit of sec<l and geologt('al sp r <'tmens,ll' ) thoughts w •nt b, d to the Stales, and when 1 turnC'1l from my momentary aberrations, I was strucl most forcibl) with the fad that n ot one obj ct in the whol_<' 'icw, animal,' ~·~t·Lth}<· , or. mineral . had :1_ny thin~ in common_vnth the products o! ally ~tat~· u~ the l : rllon, wdh the s i n n·l c ex e c p tr on of l he co ll o n w o o d , w b 1 d t l s I o u n d m t It ' w <' st c r n t ~ l c s, a n d s t' c m s l o grow w h c r c Y c r w a t c r Jl ow · from t b ' v <.' rt e b r a 1 range o [ mountains of North A m c ric-a ; this t r c ' w c found growing ncar the. urnmit of the Pir1on Lano ra11ge of mounta.iHs, in-dec d , a 1 ways w lw r c a raY i n had i tl) or i gin . . lu one Yicw could be st•cn clu:tcrcd, the larrra 1\Tcxtrann, the cactus, (1\ing) cactus, (chandclitr) green wood araria, chamiza, proso]'iS odorala, an<l a 11 •w Yaricly of s~·dgc·, and then large open spaces of bar ' gravel. Th only animals. ccn were lizznrds, . ('Orpions, and tarnntulas. I m <Hl e dab orate o b s e r vat ions for tim an < l 1 alit u d c, n n d for I on g i- 1udc by measurement of lnnar distanC' s. Anxious to obsnY ' eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, I dcU·rmincd our' more to try th<' ~mall tel scope v.rilh whiC'h the satellites of .Jupiter eould j11~t be di~n· n~t•d. I strained my eyes for two ni ghts in su<·cc·ssion to sec if J <'O\tl(l tl is co v c r the mom c n l of i m m c r s ion an d c n1 ('!' s ion o [ l an d J II , ate 1- lit •: of Jupiter, whirh wcr' ·vi iblc from our <'amp. J\ly <'lforts were fruitless, and lhe I'(' ull to myself is a clislr<'~~ing ncnous aff ction of the eye, which may injure the correetnc s of my oth •r observations of this night. The resulting latitude of the plarc is 32 ., 57' 43" . longitude " " 71~-. 2:3Jtl. 19s. Rat of chronom ter 2075, losing 12" 7s. p<·r day. The hei~ht by baromct •r 2115 fed (lbove the s a. The latitude was d<·duccd from 1:1 circum -m ·ridwn a1Litudt's of brt a a q u a r i i , n n < l 12 a It it 11 d c s o f p o 1 a r is. T h e 1 on g i t u d c fro m d 1 stanrc~ bdw en alpha arictis and the 1>, 9 of rcgulu::; and the 1>, and 5 of a let~ bar an an d t lt c D • Novcu~,ber 7.- About two miles from our camp the , an Pe(lro joins th Gila just as the la.ttcr lcnps from th~ mouth of th • caiion. Th pla 'C of' mcctin ~ is a bottom three miles wide, seeming a <'On tinuation of that of th' Gila. It is principally of deep du ·t nntl sand, ovcrp;rown with colton woo cl , m e z quit c, c h :.\ m i z a , w iII ow, a n d t h e b I a r k w i I I ow. I n p I a c· <' s there arc long sweeps of large paving pebbles, filled up with drift wood, giving the appearance of having u<·cn ov rllowcd by an impetuous torrent. The hills on both stdes of the river, still high, but now farth r off, an<l covered to the top with !Soil produ ·ing tltc m zquite and pitahaya, as the dny advanced, organ to draw in clo. cr, a.nd b fore it closc'cl, had again contracted the vallry to a .pace httle more than sufficient for the riv r to pas.; and at halt, after |
