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tongues; one that continues toward the east of the cone, the other that 
follows the base of the cone in part piling up toward the east of the 
Sapieho vent, in part flowing between the main cone and Zapicho, at a 
rate of 5 meters per hour. It is not improbably that it will reach 
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San Juan, for it follows the same route as the previous flow. 
?n - At 6 AM, the crater began with a high black cauliflower column, 
with ash, sand and scoria, drifting toward the northeast. The eruption 
ceases at one o'clock, the activity diminishing with a low sound like the 
gobble of a turkey-cock, and so becomes completely inactive giving no more 
than a gobbling noise, like lava boiling in the crater. The high winds 
are terrible today and there are no clouds to threaten rain or darken the 
ground. The ash is very loose and trucks are unable to traverse the wide 
sandy stretches. 
28 - All the fruit trees that are left in the remnants of San Juan are 
putting on green leaves and small pear, quince and peach fruit. There 
are other trees that begin to change their leaves as the oak and madrono. 
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The most resistant trees are the oak, cherry and tejocote. These trees 
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A species of hawthome bearing a small edible fruit similar to a crab- 
apple* 
would not be dried up either by the ash or by the lava, for I have seen 
them, especially the oaks, at thee edge of the lava and still alive. 
On the other hand, other trees in the forest far from the lava are drying 
out, particularly the pines and other aromatic trees. 
29 - One finds pastures very far from the volcano. The cattle maintain 
themselves by eating leaves from the greener trees about the edge of the 
lava. In spite of the scarcity of pastureage, they do not appear thin, 
but they die because the ash injures their entrails and one finds dead ones 
in the mountains and their owners believe that they have died from this 
cause. 
