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champagne. See souvenir card.
Was told that the dinner lost half of the
due to the Governor of Oaxaca cost me
$35 =.
Arrived at Tehuacan at 3. Had dinner
at the Governors house and left for Japostitlan
at 5.30, Arrived after a long night carriage ride
of Japostitlan amidst music and fireworks at
10.30. Had supper from 11.30 to 12.15 on
the return.
Riding with Aguilera he told me the valley
of Tehuacan had beneath the rocks a thin
layer of Tertiary and then sandstone the age of
which maybe Eocene or Oligocene. These beds lie
in a horseshoe. Over these once lay the great
Tertiary series now seen along both sides of the valley
and which are said to be at least 1000 meters thick.
On the west this series appears in the Middle Cutaceras
and on the east on the Arcadian. Here this is
a fault and a throw of about 300 meters.
The Cretaceous series lies in long folds.
Against the Andes of the Pacific has been
shown the entire Orogenic series. The general structure
is block like faulting and low anticlinorium.