Mexico and Its Religion / With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

by Robert Anderson Wilson

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There has been much speculation in regard to the origin of the saline properties of this water; but the Artesian borings going on while I was in Mexico, I think, sufficiently demonstrate that the earthy bottom of the valley, for hundreds of feet, contains an infusion of carbonate and muriate of soda.

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The atmosphere of Mexico is so intensely dry, that the hygrometer of Deluc frequently descends to 15°.—Humboldt's Essai Politique, vol. ii. p. 110.

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When the Artesian well, in process of construction near my residence, had reached a depth of seventy yards, the water that came up was slightly impregnated with this salt.

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Comércio de Mexico, 1852.

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Essai Politique, vol. ii. p. 61.