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Show [ 7 J 134 <lr<.' <l thousand; and in one place, brtwccn enmp. 91 and 97, tl~rrc IS a long wide vallt•y? twPnty_ m_il cs in length, much of wlu<'h 1s cov red with the n11n . of b111ldu!gs nnd brokt•n poltrry. The • ruin , ar • uniform ly of the s . .tn<· kind; not on sto nr now remains on the top of th e other; and th ey an• ~nl~ discovrrahl • by th brol en pott 'ry <~round them_, arul tone hud 111 regular order, showing- the trace of thr founclat1on of a hous<.'. Most of the. e out lint'S arc rect<~n g ular, and vary from 40 X 50 to 200 and 4.00 fee t front. The stone ar unh ·wn, r1nd arc most of an amygdaloid, r_oundr.d by <~1trition. . . Now of the tnbutancs wl11ch come mto the Gt1a from the nortlr, tlrcr arc S<'VCrRl bcsidt's th e alinr1s, which, at their mouths, arc i n . i g-n i fi c a n t i n s i z c a n d c a n b e s t e p p e <1 ?t e r o s . ; b u t . i n t h i s w. h o 1 c r gion no lc~itirnat c inference can he drawn o_f the rze of. a nver, throughou t its co ur, c, fr:orn that at any or~r pomt. . It may b large n 'llr 1ts source, and altt•r trav er ·1ng d e. erts of sand, throu gh arid r<·~ion s, unwatcred by rains, become very mal1, ancl •vcn disappear altoge thrr. 'fh creforo, cxc·ept the 'alinas, of whic·h we have oral accounts, nothing is known. or can be inferred of .the J~a g nitru,de of t!tcsc t_ributari s from th<·~r appenranc at the JUnctiOn. Ihcsc tnbutancs come in ncar camp 1, where the mountains ar so precipitous and bold no onjcctur can be formed of their eoursc: .. Th 'alinas must have b •en th branch by whr ch the expc<lttJOn of Coronado asccn d cd and cro. sed in to N cw M t•xico. Its general dir ction is not far from a line drawn from its mouth to ~anta Fe, and n arly in this line ar th cv n towns menti oned as being on th headwaters of th' an Jos '>. Indian nowpa . from the Pimos villag to New Mexi ·o on thi route. I omitted to m 'ntion in its proprr plac<·, that we were inform ed by an intelligent Marricopas Indian that, about fifty miles from the mouth of the Salim1.s, was now standin~, in a perfect state of pres rvation, the walls of a. large three story building of mud, with its interior side glaz d an1l finely polish('d, an(l about it wr1s to be seen many trac s of large a ·eq uias, and broken pottery in great abundance. Th re is anoth<'r tribe of Indian·s alled the MoquiR, who, 1ikc the Pimos and oon •s, eultivat th' oil and live in peace with their n ighbors; but th exact lo cal ity of thi tribe J do not know, b('yond the fact that it is on or near the head waters of some of the tributaries of the Gila. I am, with great respe ct, your obedient servant, W. II. El'viORY. 135 [ 7] APPENDIX No. 2. C , , OL' J>nvsrcrANS AND S uRGEONs, OJ~Lh..Gio. " , b )0 ] 18 New York, 1• e nwry , l • X'lmiru•<l the int•rt•sting <'Oll<'dion of My D EAR s ( ll. • I h ave l (' r l t ( ,., s p 0 s. tl 'I Jl d h r (' w it h s e IU l · l·· lly ac:<·< a my · · • '< Plants w. hichf yIo u In. < co p I . y llUJtlCrous tnga,br l'ments per- lJI p e t \ clS m . you alt . to t tcm, a~ . The rout, which you pa ·s ·c~ ov ·r IS mil me to make at prestnt.. l . ·~ as is cvid<·nl from the exec •dingly ri<'h in botanlca treas ure}.? ·I<,· yo.tt ,.:v"rc cnablecl to .. . .· . ' l g 'll(.'l'i\. w ll • ' \.- . n u m b c r o { n c w s p c <: r<. s an < . • . l i n an c x p , d i t i on w h I c h was m ., l< c u n <I e r g' l. .. .l .l clr ·"'dvantclg<s, .ln< 1 I· ll' L < • [.. • M · t of t t e n <' w p ,u • Tt · 1ts clnncter os alrno=-t wholly mt I ary tn : . < ' 1 . <lt mo ·t very brid ly <1 e - which you found arc onlX mdl~'\tcc '.o~-'ull acco~ut of th em will scrib 'd in. the followwg Its~. more be giv •n ht'r(•after. I am, my dear sir, very r esp clfully, yours, JOHN TORREY. To Lieutenant Colonel W. II. EMoRY. J L y 22, 1817 · . th following written sketch of the Mv Dt.:AR 1n.: 1 gtve you , . ·t t ·t a trace mad e from my rout 'not being able, as yQu r< ques ' o g map. 1 c wrrc traversing th' country From the 27th June to July llt ,, wl l f the Arl ansas, a ri ch bet we n ,.~,.~ , ort I ,caven wor ·t 1 1 '' \ n d t h ' >t ' n < 0 1 f 30 1 1 3 th l><Hallt• s o r ollin rr J>nl.l n. · (' tn b raeet I l> <' tw 'en t·h · ;.~t lf ' 1an c ·tt1de b 1 1 9 tl crulnns o o n ~ t · latitude, and the 91t l ani ~.. 'm. llo~\' {'~l the Arkan~;a · to Pawn 'c From July llth to .July l.3Lh, f<> 1 . . t th, fertil e soil ceas 's, fork in longitude about 99. At t 11 ~ pom cx<·<·'pt on the imm<'diat) marg in of the str(•ams.. the valley of the From the 14th July to Aug ust ]st, we w{~rl LT1 ll'tllL• wr tlich inter- . · ll , spun; o ow '' 1 Arkansas , oc ·astonn.lly cros~ lng lC • • Tl ·s part li •s in latitude r up t th e d i r c · t · <>ttr s e o f t h (' A r k a n sa s · 0 , 1" ' · 38°, and between longitude 99o ;md 101. 1 ·th la 'tn ·1 n a southerly :F rom the 1 'I Augu l to t 11 tl cross tng c P ' · ' 1 ' • · . , b t '1 000 f ·ct above direction and mountillg the Haton rr~ountam, a ou ' the se·l between lat1 tud ·s :3 and 3b. f tl tributari 'S fr•o m' ' t h c 1 ]it\ · th valleyso lC L h August t o t 1 c '.t 1' 1 n . 1 · . 1 t w . c n these to the Canadian, autl crossing the extcns1vc P <Un ) vall ys. l'n the gr •at ridge From the 14th August to t~c 18th, ascen~ ~ .~ of the Del Norte, between the head of the Canatltan and the wa CJS • |