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Quest
1948
Journal
154
July 14
Visited this mine early this afternoon and did
not find the bats as plentiful as our previous visit had
found them. Only two bats were seen and
both of them were captured. They were Choero-
nycteris mexicana and found near the
opening of a vertical shaft into the mine.
July 15 8 mi N. Rosario, Baja California
Was forced to camp here late yesterday
afternoon due to the breaking of the right
rear spring of the Dodge.
Minimum temperature last night was
51°F.
We are camped in a small wash in
a topography of sedimentary clay and
river washed boulder material. The wash
runs in a north-south direction and
contains but small amounts of coarse sand.
The majority of the earth here is of clay
and the wash bottom is almost entirely
made up of that material and thickly
overgrown with a dry bush of about
two feet in height. The low hills surround-
ding our camp are of clay interspersed
with layers of gravel, the west-facing
slopes grown chiefly with agave, the
east-facing slopes chiefly with low
bushes and becoming very dense in some