the line, being only about I m. East of it. The road goes to Fort N. J. Turnay so called which is merely a trading post. Saw two or three antelopes this morning but did not succeed in getting a shot at them.

Country passed over worse than yesterday being drier & with wide clay bottomed vallies with much cactus now just opening its large yellow flowers.

Section at camp this morning showed clay with some impure lignite mixed with selenite. No fossils.

Camp 6 AM

B. 26.74

T. 58

Astonomical Stn. 1 PM

26.97

75

9 PM

27.07

55

Odometer at crossing 2220

Odometer at astron. station 5600

Total distance by road from Woody Mt. to Astron. Station 30 m.

Changed all plants in the P.M.

June 27. Afternoon rode down valley of stream southwards several miles with Dr. Millman. Found a number of new flowers.

The valley wide & open. Clayey bottomed but dry. Often large bare clayey patches. Supports chiefly sage bushes & cactus (Opuntia? [Prickly Pear] with large disc shaped leaves.) The latter in flower abundantly. Flower large, yellow (pale) turning orange on falling. Started 3 Sage Cocks large birds with general habits of prairie chickens. Had a shot at an antelope at 500 yards but unsuccessfully. Saw a large jackass rabbit & many ducks with flocks of young ducklings on the stream.

The flora & fauna in the vallies approximating that of the American desert proper. The hills with scanty growth of grass & frequent cactus. Often very stoney.

Sections along E. side of valley. In some places a considerable thickness of beds exposed. Regularly stratified though not always manifest. Consist of dark coloured scrubie[sic] little consolidated clays in which no appearance of fossils of any kind. Much Ironstone lying about but could not ascertain definitely that it belonged to the beds seen. ? [Question] if these beds................ Tert.

One of men found on hillside a stone containing a large cephalopod like a bacculite [?] & evidently Cretaceous. ? if connected with beds