Field notes, v1538
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Quart 1948 Journal 82 May 24 Las Cuevas, 23° 34' N, 109° 39' W, Baja California a small stream of water that is pumped from the well in the arroyo bottom into an irrigation ditch that runs along its east wall in a northerly direction. May 25 El Carrizalito, 1400 ft, 5 mi N Santiago, Baja California Arrived here yesterday afternoon after about a half hour drive from Las Cuevas. This camp is about two miles west of the main road going from Buena Vista to Santiago. The road to Las Cuevas turns off the main road several miles N.W. of here. From here we can look eastward and see the town of Las Cuevas and beyond that to the sea. We are camped in the unfinished building of a tuberculosis sanitarium, that was started several years ago and then apparently abandoned. There is a fine spring here in the hill back of us which supports two clumps of palm trees up on the hill. To the eastward the Arroyo de Santiago runs northward to the sea. We are camped beneath the hills delineating the west side of the valley and at a considerable altitude higher than the valley floor. The hills in back of us are composed of very large granite boulders and are very steep. Palo blanco, Palo verde, Wild fig, Pitayas dulce and numerous shrubs are crowded