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Jan. 10th 93

From Cuernevaca I hired saddle animals and proceeded in a sotheasterly direction about 12 or 14 miles to Yautepec. The route led across the grassy sloping plain from Cuernavaca a few miles passing various small Indian village built mainly of wattles & mud or adobe brick The country is strewn with lava boulders from which walls are built about the fields. Midway in the course, we crossed a large lava bed which is several miles wide & proceeds from the vol. cones at base of mts. about 6 or 8 m. to the north. The rough broken surface of the lava stream would