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Show on the the site at the northwest bank of the Gunnison River. placed We day Austin. south corner of Smiths Mountain RESEARCH METHODS Colorado 92. The route is not totally observable from U.S. 50 and It along sec bui other from seen be can mostly roads, However, the route road building, where this as such terrain farming, Across tion lines. open is exact taken impossible. have routing and canal place, building (No travel August 29 day) this August 30 On the 30th in the morning, the interpreter Andres and the guide Atanasio arrived with Sabuag This afternoon we left anas and one Laguna EJ Rio de San Xavier in crossed Santa Monica, ••••• which the water reached the mounts wei I above the shoulder blades, climbed a hil I, and over broken terrain but tractable and without stone, traveled upstream and east-northeast for two leagues; then, after going another two northover country not quite as broken up but with some sagebrush, a lot of sma I I pearcactus, and finely ground black lava, we halted at the edge of a little river which we east named Santa Rosa. It rises in La Sierra del flank of which Venado Alazan, on the into that enters it and we now find ourselves, medium-sized has a it Here of San Xavier. meadow of good pasturage and a scenic grove southern of white leagues. RESEARCH AND The poplar and scrub oak. Floyd INTERPRETATION party crossed the A. river to the four Today 'Nei I and Gregory C. Thompson north and traveled along the side the route of lowing arroyos, roughly by They crossed Rogers Mesa and arrived at the banks They of Leroux Creek where they camped at a place they named Santa Rosa. (Escalante's leagues for that traveled four leagues or twelve mi les. day averaged three mi les.) hil Is which Colorado are riven several fol Highway 92. RESEARCH METHODS The entire route is easi Iy surveyed -74- from.Colorado Highway 92. |
