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Show ROUTES TO NEW MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA. 467 appears to me that on the Rio de la Asumpcion are found situations very suitable for crops; and if not, there is immediate recourse to the Gila. Given the missions, together with this presidio, and care being taken in New Mexico that the Apaches do not lurk there, I trust may be greatly furthered the project of subduing them entirely. POINT VI. Routes which can serve for the communication of these Provinces with New Mexico and Monte- Rey. I assume at the outset that for 700 or 1000 men to pass there is no road whatever in all that ( region) which I have seen and gone over; but for a moderate outfit ( cosa) there is primarily the road which has been taken by the two expeditions of these years past. Besides this, there are the two roads that I put in the Diary: that of the going to San Gabriel, and that of the return; one and the other are good in the footing, and abounding in grass, but both have a scanty aguage; may be it can be made more abundant by digging and purifying. 1* The shortest and best way, in 19 Puede set se haga mas dbundante profundizandolo y limpiandolo, meaning that the scanty water supply of such an aguage as is usually found on these routes can probably be increased sufficiently by digging such a place deeper and allowing the water to settle. |