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May, 1867: "At Santiago there are extensive planta- 

 tions of sugar cane, and a sugar mill was in active 

 operation. The process throughout is of the most prim- 

 itive kind, but the result is a very palatable sugar 

 moulded into cakes somewhat like maple sugar, and 

 known as panoche." "Sugar industry . . . also at Todos 

 Santos." 



P. 143 of J. Ross Browne, Sketch and Settlement of 

 Lower California. Report of Dr. John A. Veatch on 

 Carros or Cedros Island, p. 152, Soil and Productions, 

 pine trees. 



"The two interesting species of Rhus (R. Lentiana 

 and R. Veatchiana) form marked features in the island 

 flora, the former for the delicious acid exudation of its 

 fruit." . . . 



"A beautiful, yellow-flowered agave or aloe plant, 

 about 12 feet in height, with a stem from 4 to 6 inches 

 diameter at the base, branching and spreading at the 

 top and terminating in a profusion of golden blossoms, 

 was tolerably abundant. The flower cups were filled 

 with a fragrant, sweet liquor." 



The same book of J. Ross Browne points to a third 

 source of information on Lower California; this, how- 

 ever, was not obtainable in the original. 



P. 155, Extracts from a History of Old or Lower Cali- 

 fornia. A posthumous work written originally in Span- 

 ish by Padre Franc. Jav. Clavijero, 1 of the Society of 

 Jesus. Translated into Italian, Venice, 1789, and back 

 again into Spanish by Nicolas Garcia de San Vicente 



i Biography of Francis Javier Clavijero. Taken from Bibliotheque de la Com- 

 pagnie de Jesus. Tome II. Bruxelles and Paris, 1891, p. 1210. 



Francisco Javier Clavijero, born in Vera Cruz, on the'Oth of September, 1731. 

 Was received in the province of Mexico, February 13th, 1748. He taught rhetoric in 

 Mexico, philosophy at Valladolid and at Guadalaxara in New Spain. He was exiled and 

 deported to Italy, and died at Bologna, April 2d, 1787. 



Historia de la Antigua a Baya California. Obra poethuma del padre Francisco 

 Javier Clavijero de la compania de Jesus. 



