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about 3 miles we camp for the night on the River bank - The country appears dry and very much burnt up - a few feeble attempts at farming may be seen, but it appears necessary to irrigate to raise any kind of grain crops - Grain is light and rather light. Burnt River runs through a Canyon with high and abrupt mountains bording? upon it with bold escarpments of basalt facing the River at nearly every turn - mining seems to have been done all along the river. and old and abandoned mining camps can be seen at short intervals We are now in