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*Some of these hot springs are utilized by the women for washing clothes - the hot water being led into a pool made to one side of the outlet where the water cools enough to be used.  At one such place where a number of smooth walking stones were ranged about the border scores of rude little wooden crosses made by tying together two small pieces of [[strikethrough]] woo [[/strikethrough]] twigs or sticks with fiber of the maguey.  These were hung in the branches of an overhanging mesquite tree or stuck into the earth about the water & on the bank formed by throwing up the earth


boiling water impregnated slightly with lime & sulphur.  The water is so hot that it [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] instantly kills insects that drop in it & I found a dead field rat lying in the edge of one stream where it had evidently stumbled & been killed at once.

Mr. Pringle took advantage of [[strikethrough]] thes [[/strikethrough]] some of these hot springs to dip in them certain fleshy leaved plants to scald them & so hasten their drying.
 
Extending back from this lake are some small flats covered with mesquites, acacias, Peppertrees & a dozen or more other [[strikethrough]] trees [[/strikethrough]] small trees beside a large number of large tree-like Opuntias with flat leaves.  Pelicans, cormorants, grebes, wood ibis, Herons & bitterns were conspicuous birds on this lake & I secured several species of fishes from it at Querendaro.
 
On my return from Patzuaro the first of Aug. I stopped here