NOTES FROM SANTIAGO TUXTLA, VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, MAY 14-16, 1894. 
E. W. Nelson. 
GENERAL NOTES 
This place is situated about 7 miles from San Andres Tuxtla, on 
the road to Alonzo Lazaro at an altitude of about 750 feet above the 
sea level. It is known locally as Santiago Tuxtla, or Tuxtla. Like San 
Andres it is among the outlying foothills and ridges of the western slope 
of the range bordering the sea coast of this district. Although a little 
lower than San Andres the climate, vegetation and agricultural products of 
this locality are practically identical with those about San Andres from 
which it is separated by a series of low rolling ridges. The soil about 
here is a clayey one resulting from the decomposition of lavas. The 
geological formation is wholly volcanic. 
VEGETATION . 
As already noted the agricultural products here are about the same 
as about San Andres except that tobacco is not successfully grown owing to 
the soil being less sandy and somewhat richer here than at that place. 
The plants sent in from San Andres as illustrative of the flora 
there are equally characteristic of this place. 
The rolling hills and valley about here are partly cultivated 
but mainly covered with woods or second growth thickets. 
