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(62)   Tehuacan

of water for irrigation. There
are some very large springs just east of Tehuacan which are used to irrigate the land lying along the arroyo in that direction & to the south. Water is brought down from the hills to irrigate the land immediately east of town. A small portion of the land in the valley in which Tehuacan lies is very fertile & fair crops of corn, wheat, alfalfa, beans, & other crops are raised. Bearded wheat is raised here as elsewhere in the country. The wheat was most of it ready to cut when we 

[[strikethrough]] Tehuacan [[strikethrough]] Huamantla. (63)

visited the place & the corn was all sizes from some just up to corn beginning to ear. Most of of the plows used were of the old wooden style. Grapes, apricots, plums, melons, are raised near here but are all of very inferior quality. Bananas, oranges, pitallas [[pitayas]] the fruit of the candelabra cactus etc. were for sale in the market but everything the pitallas they were from the warmer country. We had poor success here & left for Huamantla, Tlascala [[Tlaxcala]] May 9 arriving about 3 P.M. A few light showers had fallen in Tehuacan while we were there but on our