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Fig. 2. The Big Tree of Ti i.e. 



steep that I was told one could coast all the way from Las Sedas to 

 Tomellin. On the trip back I tried it and found it to be delightfully 

 true. On a small square platform, resting upon two pairs of freight 

 car wheels, the trip was like a long, breezy shoot the chutes, the speed 

 sometimes reaching more than thirty miles an hour. The precipitous 

 cliffs, lofty mountains and deep gorges, together with gigantic cacti, 

 are some of the sights of the Eepublic. 



The station stops of greatest interest are Tehuacan and Tomellin. 

 Tehuacan is beginning to be called the Carlsbad of the New World, 

 for its wonderful mineral waters are producing cures which rival those 

 of some of the famous Mexican shrines. The water certainly has a 

 pleasant taste to recommend it and throughout Mexico one constantly 

 meets people who have been cured of various kinds of kidney, liver 

 and stomach troubles. At Tomellin, the Chinaman, Dick-Kee, who con- 



