. 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 . ome, corresponding in general appearance withothers throughout the country. The houses are wellbuilt and in general spacious, better, in fact, than anywe had seen, except a few at La Magdalena. Althoughbut of one story, they are about eighteen feet in theclear. As brick is used for cornices and other exteriorornaments, and as many of the houses are plasteredand colored, the town
. 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 . ome, corresponding in general appearance withothers throughout the country. The houses are wellbuilt and in general spacious, better, in fact, than anywe had seen, except a few at La Magdalena. Althoughbut of one story, they are about eighteen feet in theclear. As brick is used for cornices and other exteriorornaments, and as many of the houses are plasteredand colored, the town has a pleasant appearance. Itsstreets, too, unlike most Mexican towns, are quite clean. Hard by runs the Sonora River, the bottom land ofwhich, extending for more than a mile on either side,is exceedingly fertile. Its use, however, is almostwholly confined to the production of corn, wheat,beans, pumpkins, and chili. Vegetables, which onewould expect to form a large part of the subsistenceof the people, are scarcely cultivated here, and DETENTION AT URES. 441 during iny residence of three months I saw , lemons, quinces, pomegranates, and peaches,abound. There is, too, a solitary date-tree within the. ^~IcslKs Date Tree, Ures. limits of the town ; but I could hear of no others near,and presume this to be an exotic. The sugar canegrows remarkably well in the bottom lands, and is cul-tivated in sufficient quantities to supply a small sugarmill. Nothing, however, is made but the commonpilonce, an article inferior to the most ordinary brownsugar of commerce. Cotton of a superior quality, Iwas told, is raised here, though not to any extent. 442 ILLNESS AND i. The plain on which the town stands is intersected withmany arroyos, or dry water-courses, which, after heavyrains, become filled, inundate the country, and endangerthe town. Several extensive haciendas are situated inthe vicinity; among which are those of Santa Rita, ElMolino, Guadalupe, and Tapahui. A theatrical comp
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