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liberal government to raise the standard of education & usefulness of its citizens. When seeing such efforts, one cannot but heartily say long life to the administration that has made such things possible in a country so rent & torn by warring factions but a few years ago. 

There is a museum started in the gov't palace at Morelia, but after spending 2 or 3 hours in trying to find the man who had the key we gave up the task. 

From Acambaro to Morelia the R. road is very crooked as it rises a stiff grade & passes through a series of rolling cactus-strewn hills between Acambaro & Lake Quitzeo. The latter is a brackish lake bet. 20 & 30 m. long & the sink of a river flowing in from mt. San Andres beyond Morelia. On the flatshore of the lake is a deposit of saline earth