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San Diego, Jan 29, Saturday.
Spent the morning at Mission gardens on the top of the city area and the edge of Mission Canyon that heads into Mission Bay. There was a splendid view not only of the area but also of the Mt. The little dry river in the canyon could never have cut this mile wide valley. It must have come or other time once more water.
It was the same view I had yesterday, only one spot and better.
In the afternoon collected Pleistocene shells and sand dollars at Crown Point of Mission Bay. The variety is not at all large, and 90% of the fauna is made up of open [illegible] . All are washed together in the sand that has flowed from Mt. San, the rest are sand dollars, four three small gastropods, and species of two large ones. One small Dentalium, some sand filling of corals tubes, but not a sign of Byssus.