Murray 1948 24 Journal Apr 19 Cerro Prieto enroute Las Palmar Canyon While breaking camp Dr. Benson found a dead [illegible] on the ground under the thick mesquites - 1st record in Baja California. Skull only was saved. Came for the last time to Mexicali and found that the permits had been sent from Mexico city on the 8th, probably to Berkeley. Will proceed and have them forwarded! Passed our old camp-site at Cerro Centinela and reached the crest of the hill just beyond. Here we looked down on a great plain with the Sierra Juarez beyond. The Laguna Salada begins at this point and extends south - a flat, unvegetated alkaline plain as far as the eye can see. The road crosses the plain goin west, then turns up toward the northwest and the mountains. The vegetation is fairly thick in most places - creosote, mesquite most of the time, and others in sandy terrain. A little farther north came a change to rocky desert, a hard packed surface bearing mostly encelia, with creosote, cholla cactus, ocotillo. All were extremely dry. As we started up the mountain saw a