1892 
En Route 
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Mexico City 
(Mexioo) 
July 
Morelia 
(Michoaoan) 
and we stopped over for half a day between trains at the sumsit station 
Salazar on ridge west of the City of Mexioo, This point is about 
10,000 feet altitude and is in the region of pines and firs between 
the Toluca Valley and Valley of Mexico* It is a cold place, given to 
hail and cold rains in summer and occasionally a few inches of snow 
in winter, Arvieola are abundant. In the afternoon, Mr, Pringle har¬ 
ing secured a number of plants, we boarded another north-bound train 
and arrived at Aoaxnbaro at middle of night. Thence early in the morn¬ 
ing we took a train for lake and town of Patzeuaro, stopping over at 
Morelia, the capital of Michoaoan, to see the governor and secure letters 
from him to the Jefe Politicos of the districts we wish to visit. 
We found the governor, Senor Don Aristeo Mercado, a very affable 
gentleman who furnished us the letters we desired and then desired 
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information concerning the scale-insect or Aphis which is destroying 
the coffee trees in the central part of this state, I left instruct¬ 
ions for writing the Secretary of Agriculture of the U»S. in reference 
to the matter. 
Having sane time at our disposal, we visited the public garden at 
the east side of town and were charmed and surprised at the novelty 
of the plaoe. 
Crossing the low ground to reaoh the knoll on which stands the 
city is a large aqueduct supported on massive stone arches, the work 
of many years ago in the good old days of peon labor. The same effect 
at a tithe of the cost could be had now by means of iron pipe laid 
underground, but by this would be lost a picturesque and striking 
monument, 
The main garden is a beautiful piece of wild woodland in almost a 
state of nature, level and overgrown with various trees and some 
smaller growths traversed by footpaths which are neglected enough so 
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