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D. Strong
1925
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ting of beauty if it occurs'. We left them en rout for
the crest of the San Pedro Martin, the Onyx mines, San
Fernando and its petroglyphs and the desert, all in one
day so far as I could gather. All together it, was one
of the strangest meetings in a strange spot one could
well imagine.
We drove thru San Telmo, and the Le Gaspe rancho,
where we met Mr. Eaton, the Delegado of this district.
Then south to Miss Hamiston's near San Quintin, on the
San Domingo river which is dry hard at its mouth. Miss
Hamilton unfortunately is at Ensenada. Huey's (San Diego
Museum) car is here at present, he is about 18 mis.
south.
San Domingo Mission
From here (san Domingo Mission) we drove down to the
little Mexican village of San Ramon to put in a telephone
call, and thence thru the new Mexican colony down to the
beach. Managed to get across the marsh and out onto the
rocky kelp stream beach. Aside from a few glaucous wing
gulls, Pelicans, Ravens and Vultures there seems to be
little life. The marsh however offers more variety but
we only skirted it seeing many Red winged blackbirds and
V. G. and Eave Swallows.
Sage Thrashers, Kingbirds, Horned Larks and Antelope
Chipmunks -- with many Brown Towhees charac. the dry