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Show clumsy: is Harris we crossed the river and ascended the rising of the val ley, and going a league to the south-southwest, we descended to the west through a mountain pass of bad traveling, and after three-quarters of a league, we crossed a sma I I ••• plain river of very cold water. Distances and Auerbach leads to a as we low given find point good here, but fol lowing Bolton countryside and a direction that More than this, it again suggests Strawberry Ridge. the By admission, explorers were breaking a trai I on not particularly resemblance to the are some the mind of Silvestre. over the ridge, but Silvestre seemed to know how best to take them on the most direct route. Sep,tember On the 22nd we 22 set out from San Mateo to the narrow val ley's north slope on ·southwest along which there were many dangerous defi les and slides, with no other trai I than the one we went opening al I this along---and over the sierra's corrugated ruggedness which al lover here made us change direction and wind about excessively at every step---suffice it to say that, after going about five leagues up and down hi I Is and lofty shoulders, descended some of them craggy with rock, we lengthy negotiable brief plain which rivulets that join each other on It, having traveled a league southwest along the cut. Our horses were much worn out, there was plenty of pasturage, and so we halted on it, naming it San Lino. Today we traveled six long leaques and, because of so much winding about, they must have amounted to three leagues toward the west southwest with respect to San Mateo. by pastures onto RESEARCH AND ridge-cut with many lies between two a a INTERPRETATION Jerome Stoffel and George E. Stewart previous day's journey from the Strawberry River westward, September 22 the diary makes clear that the expedition was making its own trai I, guided by Si Ivestre who knew the country and the direction they must take. For this reason we plotted several alternative routes upon local maps of the region and then compared the proposed routes with As with the so for the actual terrain. One thing is stream. The noteworthy: there is no mention of an arroyo, a canyon, language is of the high country: "dangerous defi les and "the sierra's slides," corrugated ruggedness," "made us change direction and wind about excessively at every step," "up and down hil Is and lofty shoulders, some of them craggy with rock." Finally, they "descended by a lengthy negotiable r'idge-cut with many pastures onto a brief plain which I ies between two rivulets that Join each other." Only as they arrived at the campsite did they mention streams or a .• -114- |
