Fig. XVIII.— a Tiilladora or Coffee-cleaning Mill in Caldas. 
The next day we continued our journey and at 12 
kilometres distance we arrived at tlie town of San 
Francisco, a town founded in 1844. It lies at 1380 
metres above sea-level and has an average temperature 
of 22° C. It has 6,650 inhabitants, which are principally 
engaged in cattle farming, coffee and cane growing, i\ 
considerable quantity of maize is also grown, as well 
as beans and vegetables for the Manizales market. We 
continued our journey after lunch to Manizales, and after 
several hours spent in climbing the hillside under a 
burning sun, we reached our destination. 
From Manizales we proceeded the next morning to 
make our third crossing of the Cordillera Central, on our 
way to the Magdalena valley ; and after leaving the 
beautiful plateau of Manizales we commenced the ascent 
of the western slopes. I found Wxo. pdrauios less interest- 
ing, and the lands poorer, than the Ruiz and Quindio 
trails, though there were many interesting plants on these 
paramos that I had not previously collected. After riding 
from Manizales, a distance of some 36 kilometres, we 
came to a posada situated in a bleak position known as 
Letras, where we passed the night in company with many 
arrcaros. 
Continuing our journey the next morning we soon 
commenced the descent down the eastern slopes of the 
Cordillera, and early in the morning came to the advance 
works of the Mariquita- Manizales cable- way, and later 
in the morning to the Station of P'rotillo, from which this 
transport cable now operates with Mariquita. At about 
25 kilometres from Letras we reached Solidad, a small 
town on the Cordillera situated in the Department of 
Tolima. After lunching here we proceeded a further 
distance of 18 kilometres, when we reached a small 
village known as Aguacatal, where we camped the night. 
Continuing our descent early we reached at about 
1 1 in the morning the small and picturesque town of 
Fresno, a busy little centre for coffee. In the afternoon 
we jiroceeded, and at about 12 kilometres from Fresno 
we reached the gold mines known as La Parroquia, and 
pushing on we arrived at Mariquita just in time to hear 
the whistle of the 6 o’clock train arriving from Honda. 
The next morning we proceeded to the Estacion 
Agronomica Tropical at San Lorenzo by train on the La 
Dorada Railway. After there disposing of our collection, 
we left for Bogota. Finding the navigation of the Upper 
Magdalena suspended, we made the journey from 
Boltran to Girardot by canoe, the trip occupying two 
days and three nights almost continuous travelling, 
arriving at Girardot just in time to catch the 7 a.m. train 
to the capital. 
Of the botanical collections made on the journey, a set 
has been placed in the herbarium at the Estacion 
Agronomica Tropical, a further set has been forwarded 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ; and a third set has 
been sent to the New York Botanical Gardens of the 
United States. A scientific paper on these collections 
will be prepared and published at a later date. 
A sketch map is attached to this report showing the 
I'oute followed. 
In concluding this report I desire to express my 
grateful thanks to the officials and others who have 
rendered me assistance in this mission, and especially to 
my companion and secretary, Don Pablo Aza, whose 
devotion to the objects of the mission made my task less 
difficult. 
Bogota, 
March 261 h, 1919. 
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