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(estas ampollas, gruesas vegigas 6 conos diferentemente 

 regulares en sus figuras y tamanos reventaron despues). 

 and emitted boiling-hot mud (tierras hervidas y ca- 

 lientes), as well as scoriaceous rocks (piedras cocidas ? y 

 fundidas), which are still to be found, covered with black 

 masses of stone, to an enormous distance." 



These historic accounts, which could, indeed, be 

 wished to have been more full, agree perfectly with all 

 that I was able to learn fourteen years after Antonio de 

 Kiano's ascent. To all my questions whether the 

 " mountain castle " had risen gradually higher in the 

 course of months or years, or whether it had been seen 

 from the earliest days as a high summit, I could obtain 

 no answer. Kiano's statement, that eruptions had con- 

 tinued to occur for the first sixteen or seventeen years, 

 or up to 1776, was contradicted as untrue. The ap- 

 pearances of small eruptions of mud and water, in the 

 first days, simultaneously with the burning scoriae, were 

 ascribed by the tradition to the drying up of two brooks 

 which, rising on the western declivity of the mountain of 

 Santa Ines (east therefore of the Cerro de Cuiche), 

 watered plentifully the sugar-plantations of the former 

 Hacienda de San Pedro de Jorullo, and flowed on far 

 to the westward, to the Hacienda de la Presentacion. 

 There is still shown, near their supposed source, the 

 point where their once cold waters are said to have 

 disappeared in a cleft when the eastern border of the 

 Malpais was elevated. Eunning beneath the Hornitos, 

 they become warmed, and reappear, according to the 

 universal belief of the country-people, in two thermal 

 springs. As the raised part of the Malpais is there 

 broken off precipitously, they form two little waterfalls. 



