ANDREW FURUSETH.
JULY 3.
Above an elevation of four thousand feet timber is quite abundant. Along the river-bottoms and low grounds the sycamore is found as clean-limbed, tall and stately as elsewhere. The cottonwood, too, is common, though generally dwarfed, scraggy and full of dead limbs. A willow still more scraggy, and having many limbs destroyed with mistletoe, is often found in the same places. The elder rises above the dignity of a shrub, or under-shrub, but can hardly be found a respectable tree. Two varieties of oak are common, and the alder forms here a fine tree along the higher water-courses.
T.S. VAN DYKE,
in Southern California.
JULY 4.
A WESTERN FOURTH.
Here, where Peralta's cattle used to stray;
Here, where the Spaniards in their early day