Acequias, norias, y huertas

We're very much enjoying Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America (William W. Dunmire). It's not artfully written but the trains of thought that it starts are soothing and pleasant ones. And at last I know for what Las Norias was named; nobody could ever say, or describe the mechanism, either. They'd just say "like a well" or "like a spring," without describing the device. Thank you Austin Public Library. Now it would be great to find Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-47 (979.02 Ma).