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usual - for they certainly have struck about the only route at all practicable for wagons - As we go south the mountains grow higher - or what amounts to the same thing the canons are cut deeper. The valleys are bogs the hills crags or covered with timber. He came in the dry season & had that advantage. My wagons sink when his passed easily - I crossed his morass by a corduroy - otherwise I should have been stuck