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Show 460 Ex. Doc. No. 41. able la<l<lers; a m.o<~e, I think, peculiar. to l'uchlo }nclians. The idea may have ongtnated from. the nece.s, lly ot d~ .. endtng t~rmS<• lvt•s agaiust tiH.:ir wild t'll(>mtes, and IS now qutte cxtcllstvcly practi~wd <llllOIII{St the diff ·n:nt b~ncls of Pueblo~. Tht·sc Iudt<~ns lwve very ftne fields of corn, <tnd I n,oticcd ~nrL i cuI a rl y t heir or<' hard s of JH' a c h an cl pI u r~ trees. '1 h c In d ran s cultil·att• almost all the fruit that is grown tn the country .. O,.c may u·ually dtsrinljui ·h an India~ t->ttlement, ?n approa chtng rt, by the clump of trees; whil t the Indolent Spant ·h settlers s<.:ldom take t h <' t r o ubI<' to p 1 ant t h t•tn. Just o p p o. it e " ,, n .J u an , " is the rn out h of 1. h c "Rio Cham a," one of tht· western amucnts of ~he "Rto del Norte." Itllows from the northw<•st, through a beautiful valley, and, like the other stream ' of the country, has a narrow bottom, along whtclt the p('oplc have scttl~·d. It is throug-h thi valley that the famous mule trail from 'anta Fe to tht> "Pueblo cle lo Angeles," in California, finds its way to the Cordilleras. Towards the hl'ad waters of the river, fine gra sis found, and the country i w II adapted to the raising of tock; but all att•mpts at settlement above the "vaAjbo iqluudiuia'n' sh.a \'c failed from the d,·predations of the Utah an Na13ctwt•(> n Abiquiu and Chama, a small branch enters the main stream, flowing from a group of springs, at which a village is built, called "Ojo Calient6." The largest of these springs is 16 or 18 feet in diameter, and the water in the basin present the appearance of boding, in consequence of th continued esct~pc of sulphurat<•d hydrogen gas. Other small springs exist, and from all a highly ferruginous deposite is formed. 'l'hese waters have been recommended by Doctor Nagle, of Santa Fe, in many chronic diseases, and alway with succ<'ss. Five mil rs ft·om " an Juan," is the town of "Catiada," a village of 300 or 100 inhabitants, built on a slight roll of land, one mile from the river. At this point, the Santa ~'6 road leave the river again, and, after crossing an elevated tongue of land, enters the valley of the "Rio Tezuque." Several settlement of 'paniards / and Indians arc to be seen along the stream, the principal of which arc "Cuyamanque," and "Tezuque," both Pueblos. From the Ytodwlangoef ofa TnetazcFqeu."r, it is but five miles, over a cedar hill, to the Having, with the aid of these notes, laid before you all that was thought "••serving of notice in the northern portion of t 1tc department of New Mexico, I shall again resume the daily journal of occurrcnc~s, sta.rting from Santa Fe, and visiting the numerou towns, wh11·h wdl be found laid down on the accompanying map. Octo be.· 8.-We now ( i. e . .Jlbert and Peck) prepared for the r~gular tour through thts departimento. At 1 o'clock my m n arrt ved from the grazing gt·ound wi1 h the wagon and mules. I procured the nece ·ary provisions, although some of the contmissary's suppltes were exhauster!, but those I pur<:hasPd. Colonel Doniphan wa prepanng to march into the country of the Navajoes, and the battalion of Mormons was daily expected. All the money in Santa |