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 24 THE CONDOR - VOL. XII having gone over a rather uninteresting country, dry and barren. Aiken left us that afternoon, taking the train for home. Durand and I stopped there until next morning, and then took a road which went around through the hills to the north, and finally brought us back to the Arkansas. River, about half a mile below Park dale station, and above the Grand Cation of the Arkansas. The road had taken us up through a somewhat rocky, dry cation, and then through Eight Mile Park, mostly open country, with scattered cedars, pitions, and yellow pines, which grew Fig. 12. MAP OF PORTION OF COLORADO COVERED BY E. R. WARREN IN HIS COLLECTING TRIP DURING THE SUMMER OF 1909 more a. bundantl on the hills a little distance away from the road. We crossed the river at this place, and camped close by early in the afternoon, and explored the country thereabouts, though interrupted for a while by a very heavy shower. On the low hills near camp were cedars and pitions, with a few pines; and on the open ground grew yucca, a small tree cactus, and rabbit brush ( C,rysot,amnus sp. ). The next day we traveled at first a few miles in open country, and then turned up Copper Gulch, which was followed for several miles. This was mainly