1894 
City of Mexico 
(Mexico) 
January 
Jan. 2 
Am®cameo& 
(Mexico) 
January 3 
crowd and were in family groups laden with the usual medley of bundles 
and bags. 
Owing to the closing of all places of business today it has been im¬ 
possible to get my baggage from the depot,- keeping me here a day longer 
than I expected. 
On application at freight office for the things sent there from 
Zaoeteoos by my assistant I learned that the things' liud been taken to 
the custom house. My assistant wont there arid found things run in such 
a haphazard way that it occupied him until afternoon to get our outfit 
although there were no dubitabla articles in the lot. Finally he suc¬ 
ceeded in securing them too lato for us to get away today. 
We got off this morning and came out to this place enroute for a 
trip up to timberline on Ietaccihuatl, The leaves on the willows were 
withered from the effects of the recent severe frosts. The waters of 
the lakes are swarming with ducks of saany species, but no goes© were 
seen, Near Amec am.ee a msh of the winter wheat now 2 or 3 inches high 
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lias been killed down to the ground. The Volcano of Popocatepetl was 
smoking at 8*30 a.m, so that a pale, thin column of smoke arose about 
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2,000 feet in the calm manning air and then was driven KB at a right 
angle by an upper current thus giving the following appearance: 
The smoke has the appearance of a thin gray vapor. 
The trees of the Valley of Mexico to and including ■Amec&meca are 
Fallx bonplando r. cypresses, ash ( fraxinus) . eucalyptus, and Sphinus 
mo lie, the last three probably imported, Many olive orchards are found 
in the southern end of the Valley from 7400 to 7600 or 7700 feet and 
within the line of the sharp frosty nights at this season. So far as I 
have noted no species of Prosopis occurs in the Valley and Packard*s 
statement of its occurrence near Amaec. must have been owing to his hav- 
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