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(74) Sierra Malinche.

the same from this Mt. as those of Orizaba. The country in every particular is much the same. I think the timber line on this Mt. in in the neighborhood of 10.000 ft. The firs are only found a short distance below it & pine is growing up to the line. The low timber line seems to be due to lack of soil rather than to temperature. People tell me the water on the Cañada de San Juan contains sulphur. The country [[crossed out]] for some distance below [[/crossed out]] from timber line down some distance 

Sierra Malinche. (75)

is of black ashes & a layer varying in thickness up to 6 ft. or more is of pumice is to be seen in washes down the Mt. side nearly to Huamantla. This layer of pumice is white in color & of the same character as the beds of it near Chalchicomula & is covered many feet deep in sand. Malinche must at some time [[crossed out]] to [[/crossed out]] have been an active volcano. 

Camp at Rancho, May 15, I am in a hole in the ground, as I write a band of robbers about a dozen they tell me are watching 

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