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Title: Campfires on desert and lava
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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have been doneany better. For about three-fourths of its length it slopes towardthe north and an arroyo leads down all that distance, withthe usual small trees of mesquite, palo verde and iron-wood stringing along its banks. The green edge of thearboreal river stops short at the Vandyke-brown edge ofthe desert, and the straightness of all these north-and-southlines is one of the things at which to wonder. The lavaplain on the eastern side is higher by several feet than thePass, and upon it, like so many botanical exhibits on abroad bench, stand specimen ocatillas, small nigger-headcacti, torotes, an occasional choya and stunted, scatteringbushes of several sorts. But it is on the western side of the green pass riverthat the most queer things are found. Several miles upfrom the Tule Desert, a colossal curiosity looms aloft.It is the eastern end of a short granite mountain, aboutone thousand feet high (as a guess), which once upon atime opened up a crater on its summit, from which much
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MACDOUGAL PASS AND VOLCANO i6i lava was discharged. We know this because a great massof black lava, like a skull-cap, has been built up fifty feethigh on the top of the granite mountain, and from thesame source more lava flowed down through a notch on thesouthern side. Clearly, the granite hill-top is a victim ofmisplaced confidence; for had those internal ructions goneon a little longer, the whole of the original structure whichkindly offered an accommodating outlet for the fires belowwould have been completely buried under the lava flow.I fancy that students of volcanoes may look far before thelike of that will be found elsewhere. The black and fune-real lava resting on the clean, gray-granite peak is indeeda strange geological exhibit; and Mr. Sykes has christ-ened it Black-Cap Hill. Not far beyond that bit of history, and on the westernside of the Pass, we came to a bare and smooth plain,beyond which stood the most unmitigated choya field thatwe saw on the whole trip. A forty-acre

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