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several thousand acres of bottom land at Todos Santos, 

 the third important town in the Cape Region. Other 

 creeks of importance on the Pacific side are San Jacinto 

 and Palmar to the south and Carissal to the north of 

 Todos Santos, but while they may be raging torrents, 

 dangerous and impassable in the rainy season, they dry 

 up during the dry season and flowing water is found in 

 their beds only high up in the sierra, while near their 

 mouths sundry lands may be irrigated from seepage water 

 and underflow. The country around El Chinche, Cal- 

 averas, San Felipe and San Nicolas, all south of El 

 Taste, form the watershed of a large canon heading for 

 Cabo San Lucas. But I understand that the waters sel- 

 dom reach the Pacific Ocean, at least around San Lucas 

 there is no stream, though much of the land appears sub- 

 irrigated. 



As regards .the quality of the water in the San Jose 

 River I may remark on its exceeding purity. It is remark- 

 ably brilliant and pure, free from sediment and quite 

 crystaline in appearance. It is good tasting and very 

 healthful and one of the best waters I have tasted, though 

 much inferior to that of San Bartolo. 



The ridge north of Miraflores divides the waters of the 

 San Jose Valley from those of Santiago. The Santiago 

 Creek, which heads between San Bernardo and Sierra 

 Laguna, somewhere around Chuparosa, runs directly into 

 the Gulf, when it runs at all. But generally the waters 

 of the streams stop in a lake at Santiago, the largest and 

 probably the only lake in the Cape Region. It is about 

 one-half mile long and one-eighth mile wide, and it 

 never dries up. The waters of this river are also used 

 to irrigate considerable land, but in a crude and most 

 unsatisfactory way. 



Besides these creeks which show constant water, there 



