are now than fn the days As we get near the mts I see it to be a fault scarp of volcanic rocks, then ochint and rapidly whitest granite. The latter con- tinues for great many miles - to about the station Redondo. Rapidly the R. R. co- cards the fault face and [illegible] several short tunnels, and then a long one when we care in the Carrizo Range^10. Up beyond the [illegible] 11 miles long. and make 24 tunnels them claims to be railway divide at Ohi- jans at 3660 feet above the sea. All has long been granite and it goes W. to about Redondo. Then the granite has exceedingly many dark inclusions. Eruptive the granite creedthen readily and the whole scenery is one of white trachers. The eastern ascent is [illegible] rather quiet and the escutene slope is a long matt more steep than from wide valleys. fertile me, To the west of the high granite runs one down mes. of lava flows, and part- ally of much younger age. As we come out to the Pacific craft and