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(82) Perote. composed of lava begin having many small cliffs which must afford shelter or rats & other animals. The second station is Virreyes it is also near the hills. The third station I do not recall the name of but an extensive lava bed comes clear into the place which consists of a Hda. & a lot of shanties. This side of there is a high hill with a sharp peak which we took for Perote from the Sierra Malinche. It also has many cliffs & broken places in the lava on its sides. Along the base of these hills grows juniper on a low bushy cypress. I do not Perote. (84) know which & on the tops of some of them scattered pines. We came along a nearly level open country between the hills mentioned & a similar lot of them on our right. In this open country corn, barley, garbanzo are raised also magueys part of this plain is alkali & covered with water of this season. Back a few miles from here is a low part of the plain which is probably at all seasons of the year a lake. A good deal of this plain seems to have a thin shell of limestone about a foot beneath the surface. I thought I saw jumping rat holes a short distance