crater, It consists merely of three frame huts, on© contains a furnace 
for treating sulpfeurf one is a sort of stable % and the other contains a 
bed of straw in one end for spreading deem blankets on* A fire is built 
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on the ground in the ©enter of the room* W® did not, however, reach it 
today but tamed off the road and camped in a cleft of a cliff along a 
canon 'through which runs a small stream of ■raster, Tory heavy saeoaton 
©pass grows along canons} the country is covered by a smaller grass,- a 
sort of bunch grass,- I afterward found extending up nearly to mow. 
Some of the birds seen enroute were for the plain* Pioilo fusoas. 
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Carpodaous mex» . snow bird, Ctocerus, and m the •wooded slop© swift, 
snow bird, flycatcher (red and black, crown patch rufous, two outer 
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tail feathers white) and 1 shot a Cyanooltta stelleri dtademtaj also 
saw C olaptos safer, 
February 24 - W© left our camp at cave and moved tc Tlamachue, 
Stayed all night there and next day climbed Popocatepetl to the crater. 
It was very cold,- 20° above aero our thermometer registered, W© were 
glad after taking a look at the orator and the country around to begin 
the descent. W© dished down to timber line and found our horses waiting 
After a light lunch we rod© down to Mecameca arriving about 7*30 p.m. 
The mm gave a® a slight attack of snorablindaess. As w@ rode into 
iimeeaaeea every light I saw looked like a ruby one, 1% found our friend 
Mr, Bieland still in team a, There appeared to be a small glacier on 
Mount Popocatepetl just to the left of Frier* s Peak. There was no other 
sign of a glacier to be seen. 
Si© left Ameca February 28 to climb Istaocihuatl, After crossing 
the plain to the foot of hills we rode through three successive belts 
of t briber very distinct in character* 1. The firs, oaks, pine, madronas 
etc, 2, Fir almost entirely, 3, Another belt of pine and a few oaks. 
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