. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. SERI FRONTIER ^^BS^fewB.^**^-. SIERRA SERI FROM ENCINAS DESERT MCGEE] BARREN VALLEYS AND RANGES 41 the interior. At Puiita Aiitiguall;i tlie bank expands aud rises iuto agreat maiiimillated sliell-mound nearly 100 feet bigb, with several ofthe cusps occupied by more or less ruined jacales; and occasionally occu-liied houses occur midway thence to the southernmost point of SierraSeri, and again at the base of the first spur east of Punta Punta Antigualla the sweep of tlie waves is
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. SERI FRONTIER ^^BS^fewB.^**^-. SIERRA SERI FROM ENCINAS DESERT MCGEE] BARREN VALLEYS AND RANGES 41 the interior. At Puiita Aiitiguall;i tlie bank expands aud rises iuto agreat maiiimillated sliell-mound nearly 100 feet bigb, with several ofthe cusps occupied by more or less ruined jacales; and occasionally occu-liied houses occur midway thence to the southernmost point of SierraSeri, and again at the base of the first spur east of Punta Punta Antigualla the sweep of tlie waves is stronger than inBabia Kino, and the coastal sandbank is generally higher. Between therocky buttresses of Punta Ygnacio and the next spur eastward the sand-ridge rises fully 50 feet above mean low tide, and here, as elsewliere,its verge is protected by a fog-fed chaparral thicket with occasionalclumps of okatilla and other cacti. Behind the coast barrier lie lagoon-like basins, generally dry and floored with saline silt-beds, thoughsometimes occupied by briny pools formed through seepage duringsouthwesterly gales; and there a
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