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Curious, yucca-like maguey from which mescal is made throughout. This end of the valley of Oaxaca - the plains like character of the valley gradually changed until we entered the bare foothills after a few hours and began ascending the winding way on road which leads up over the high ridge which forms a spur on the east side of the valley here projecting out so to separate the miahuatlan val. from the  main val. except when these mts. end to the west & permit the two basins to unite. This intimidating ridge is mainly limestone & is about 7000 ft. high where we crossed it. It gets a little higher than this to one side of the divide - The only woody growth was made up of scrubby bushes & low trees of the arid lower-Sonoran zone such as grow on the valley hills about Oaxaca city. Scattered all down the north slope from 6500 to 5500 ft were many tall shafts of large magueys covered with bright yellow flowers & giving a strange aspect to the vegetation soon after we began to go down the long north slope a shower that had been creeping in from the SW. began to surround us - putting on our rubber cloths we went on expecting to get out of it soon. We were out on an expanding ridge some miles long & the shower continued for about two hours accompanied by a very high cold wind and some hail. Passing along one very narrow part of the ridge on each side of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] which the ground fell away many hundred feet into canons the wind had a fierce strength that seemed almost capable of

Transcription Notes:
Maguey = Aloe tree Names of the two valleys is [[?]]. [[miahuatlan?]] based on "Miahuatlan" appearing on page 15, might be the same place. Need tilde on canoñs