The volcano of Jorullo (1759) and the official record made of its birth

A volcano broke out of flat sugar-cane country in Michoacan on 29 September 1759. Within a fortnight the alcalde mayor had reported it to the viceroy and required the administrator of the ruined estate to keep a daily narrative; the viceroy asked whether lava had run, and a pound of the affected sand was collected and sent up. The eruption also destroyed a hacienda and emptied a pueblo de indios. Both halves are in the same file.