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Show street of the town of Spanish Fork, past the campsite of Dulcisimo Nombre de Jesus (September 23), then slightly west of the town of Salem almost paral lel ing .U.S. Highways 50 and 6 into the present town of Pavson. The dis Because of the fai lure tances approximate those of Escalante's estimation. to include the two leagues from Hobble Creek-Dry Creek to Spanish Fork River, Escalante arrived at the two leagues distance traveled that date, from Dulcisimo Nombre de Jesus to San Andres. Total for the date was 51 ightly less than four leagues or about ten mi les. RESEARCH METHODS We used the Spanish Fork and Santaquin quadrangles of the USGS 7.5 and 15 Minute Series and checked the distances by clocking .the mileage in an We found automobile. Directions were determined by the use of a compass. from experience gained throughout the tracing of the- route that the direc We dis tions given are generally magnetic rather than true directions. cussed the problem of archaeomagnetism which might have caused discrepancies in our readings and those taken by Miera 20 years ago, but maps prepared of the wanderings of magnetic north show that from the present longitude, the changes would have made little difference in the direction of magnetic north. This is especially true since the directions are given only to the nearest 22.50• September On the 27th we 27 started out from EI Arroyo de San Andres toward the south and, after going one league whi Ie stfl Ion bottomland, crossed another rivulet with as much water as that of a medium-sized irrigation ditch, and wherever it goes it fol lows the lay of the land, which is very good for farming. We continued south over the same bottomland for a league and a half, went through its southern pass--which we named Puerto de San Pedro--and entered another spreading valley which, because the salt flats from which the Timpano gotzis provide themselves lie very close to it on the east, This is one of those just named Val Ie de las Sal inas. mentioned above, and it must extend fourteen leagues from It is al I level north to south, and five from east to west. we greatly abounding in water and pasturage, even though through it other than a sma I lone. We went another four leagues south over the val ley floor, and stopped by a copious running spring of good water which we named Ojo de San Pablo Today six leagues and a half to the south. land, no river flows •••• -125- . |
