. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. ^seemed to have been readilv enough suggested, forthe entire mass in sight was of primitive rock whollybare, and destitute of vegetation except here and therewhere a friendly crevice or indentation yielded a scantyand precarious sustenance to a few stunted trees or 1 This shrub occasionally grows six to eight feet in height, but generallyonly from one to two feet. It emits, especially when crushed, a strong worm,wood odor, which from its almost constant presence becarne very

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