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that the prospect of a fine day was certain and that the bad road 
mire of the so-called Camino Nacional I was astound t Mr 
Schultz’s perseverance. I have had some experience with 
obiles on roads but I had never seen anything like this 
attempte many of the miry places the entire party except 
took turns in pushing the car through mud holes out ‘al which 
its own mechanism was unable to extract itself and once we got 
on the top of a bump where we struck so fast that the combined 
energy of the party could not move it and it was necessary to get 
shaley hills in the re harbored various smaller cacti while 
Opuntia grew in the forest along the roadside. We lunched on 
the porch of a country store and kept onward until approaching 
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new to my collection and I doubt if there is a similar incident on 
record. Just as we entered the experiment station the auto- 
mobile refused to move any farther and we were obliged to push 
it to the house. Investigation showed that some vital part of the 
machinery which had held out all day had broken down at this 
most ea moment. One excursion was m made t¢ to Tra neas, 
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covered with low woods and thickets. Here we were overtaken 
