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paint anointed its sores. But its spirit is broken. 

 The once haughty vehicle now rattles up to the 

 inn with many a protesting creak and groan as 

 though begging for rest — eternal rest. But Mar- 

 tinez is no believer in rest, while duty still calls. 



It was for land-shells chiefly we wished to devote 

 two days about Vifiales. Although the region 

 had been considerably worked by various members 

 of our expedition upon other occasions, there still 

 remained for exploration certain unvisited mogotes 

 and parts of the sierra. As before suggested 

 Vifiales offers exceptional advantages both for 

 intensive collecting and for study of geographic 

 distribution, for within comparatively easy access 

 of the town several of the sierra systems converge, 

 and are near together. We believed the quickest 

 solution of all sierran faunal problems would be 

 found in the mollusks and for a full collection of 

 these from every mogote and every sierra we felt 

 the time and labor would be well spent. 



A series of four mogotes (beginning at a point 

 near the road, about a mile southwest of Vifiales) 

 traverse the valley diagonally toward the western 

 end of the large masses of El Tumbadero and Dos 

 Hermanos. These four small mogotes appear like 



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