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[Santa Cruz River], 120 [miles] from the mouth


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A river valley landscape, including some of the exploring party.

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"RF" FitzRoy [top right corner]


Drawing. The sky contains a vague indication of cirrus and/or cirrus-cumulus clouds in the centre over a horizon-line of hills, more rounded and conical to the left, flatter topped to the right, of a bend in the river. The far bank on the left is low and sloping, with an indication of lines of low bushes, annotated: "very light". The hills on the left are annotated: "greenish-grey", those in the background centre: "purple into greenish grey". The hills on the right are annotated: "broken parts light grey". Near the river bank in the midground centre running towards the right-hand edge of the picture, there is a low grassy mound with vegetation sprouting from it, annotated: "Sand with large tufts of dead grass and dark bushes". The annotation below this reads: "Sand and a patchy[?] watercourse" -- referring to a small inlet from the river shown in the centre and right of the foreground. Moored in here against the foot of the low mound are three small boats, two of them mostly hidden behind that closest to the viewer. One of the boats has a thin mast and a single guyrope. On the bank of the low mound there are two human figures, the leftmost leaning against the prow of one of the boats, the other standing facing him. In the left centre of the foreground, a small rock projects from the water, to the left of which the riverbank is vaguely indicated rising to the left-hand edge of the picture, with a bush growing halfway up the slope.

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