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resembling the speckled on of Routt, Ca. (??)

Rito de los Frijoles, Wednesday Aug. 3, 1910 August 3, 1910.

Up at 5:30 a.m., breakfast at 6:30. Cloudy, My sleeping cave is 6 x 8 ft., ceiling 4 ft. in center, blackened by smoke of ancient fires. I went among the narrow leafed cottonwoods Populus angustifolia below camp and collected Ashmunella sp. Ashmunella, Cochlicopa lubrica Cochlicopa lubrica, Zonitoides arboreus Zonitoides arboreus, Pupilla, spp. Pupilla, Vallonia cyclophorella Vallonia cyclophorella (abundant), Euconulus trochiformis Euconulus trochiformis and possibly other land snails land snail.

The canyon runs approximately southeast and northwest. The walls here, so far as visible above the talus slope, are composed of a light and light colored ((sic)) tufa. On the south side the slope is steep, but without a vertical wall, and has pines and shrubs rather sparsely scattered over it from base to top. On the north side there is one high, nearly vertical wall, with a tendency to produce others less pronounced. A crosssection much generalized is thus: