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These houses have earthen [[strikethrough]] wooden [[/strikethrough]] floors & are very often damp from the moisture of the soil as well as from the constant wetting that the people are in the habit of giving them. While at Tlalpan I made a trip up to the village of Ajusco which lies at the N.E. base of the mountain of the same name. The village is a rambling affair of adobe houses roofed with pointed-shale covered roofs. The people live by cultivating fields of corn on the loose, sandy, & very poor soil up to an altitude of 10,000 ft. and by cutting wood on