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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of dirt and offal. It is surprising to astranger to behold the diverse uses to which theseacequias are applied. They are in one place a publicbathing tub ; at another half a dozen women may beseen washing; a little further on an animal is beingbutchered; and at the next house the people aretaking up water for cooking. Taken as a whole, Hermosillo is the best builttown I had seen in Sonora. Some of the private dwell-ings are large and substantial, with pleasant and tastyexteriors, and handsomely furnished. No houses show-ing the bare mud walls are seen in the principalstreets, as is usually the case in El Paso del Norte, butall are colored, and often ornamented with columnsand pilasters in good taste. The court-yards are filledwith orange trees and flowering shrubs. The Alame-da, or public walk, which extends along the margin ofthe town, is not yet remarkable for its beauty; time,however, is only wanted to render it a place of greatattraction. It is well filled with trees, among which
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GUAYMAS. 469 is the beautiful palm. This park possesses an histori-cal interest, having been the scene of a bloody actionduring the civil war between Urrea and Gandera. The valley produces annually about 25,000 fanegas(65,600 bushels) of wheat; 10,000 fanegas (26,250bushels) of maize, and about 5000 fanegas of othercereals. Vegetables are not cultivated to any con-siderable extent; onions, sweet potatoes, chili, andpumpkins constituting the entire supply. It is truethere may be some others cultivated, but they are notcommon. Cacahuates (pea-nuts) are also raised here.Of fruits there is a great abundance, including grapes,melons, figs, oranges, limes, lemons, citron, peaches,and pomegranates. The figs are very fine; but thepeople do not know how to preserve them. Theguava and plantain have lately been introduced, andare found to succeed. But the vine is most exten-sively cultivated; not less than 1500 barrels of brandy,of 125 cuartillos each, are annually made. Of thequantity of wine m

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