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Show August 31 On the 31st we set out from EI Rio de Santa Rosa toward the northeast, went a league and a half over good country and arrived at another medium-sized river, which comes down from the like the previous one and with it same sierra enters into that of San Xavier, and we named Maria, in the leas and bends of it Rio de Santa which there is al I that is needed for the two settlements. founding We went to the northeast four leagues and a half upstream, over those meadows and through and sUbsistence of the groves which it also has, crossing it We turned north, crossed the river once. again, entered a woods of juniper and a great deal of rock which lasted for about by going up along the slope of a very deep narrow val ley, breaking through dense clumps of scrub oak; then, after going four leagues northward also, we stopped at a perennial water source which we named San Ramon Nonnato. Today nine leagues. three mi les; then La Sierra RESEARCH AND del we continued Venado Alazan INTERPRETATION Floyd A. O'Nei I and Gregory C. Thompson Rosa de Lima, the explorers passed just north of the Hotchkiss townsite, across Hanson Mesa, and continued along the north bank of the north fork of the Gunnison River to a point approximately Crossing the river the party pro one and one-half miles below Paonia. Leaving Santa ascended along its south bank through the present town of Paonia, of northeast les one-half mi Paonia, the river to approximately two and one-half crossed the river to the north, went for approximately two and to enter mi les through rocky, juniper-covered terrain, and swung north Santa from number of the estimated Escalante leagues Hubbard Canyon. about or one-half and Hubbard four as of leagues, Rosa to the mouth The distance to the creek by actual mi leage is fifteen. twelve mi les. fork of the Gunnison River, Escalante estimated their north the From travel as four leagues which we determined to be seven mi les, placing ceeded low Creek the group in a meadow one mile north of the confluence of Wil has pas that This is the first realistic campsite and Hubbard Creek. of any magnitude between the mouth of Hubbard Creek and this turage point. The day's travel was nine 2.45 mi les for the day's travel.> leagues. -75- <Escalante's league averaged |
