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Show JOuR:'-L\L OF A VUYAGl!. this view con1bined the sublime and beautiful ; the great and lofty mountams covered with eternal snows, seemed to surround the luxuriant vale, crowned with perennial flowers, like a terrestrial paradise, shut out from the vic\~ of 1nan. Gtb February, Friday.-Thc doctor having some pe-cuniary demancls in the province of New Mexico, conceiv<' d this to be the most eligibl' point tor him to go in, and return previous to all 1ny party having joined me from the Arkansaw, and that I was prepared to descend to Natchitoches: he therefore this day made his preparations for 1narching to-morrow. I went out hunting, and killed a deer at three miles distance, which, with great difficulty l brought in whole. We continued to go on with the works of our stock-ade or breast work, which was situated on the north bank of the west branch, about five tniles from its junction with the main river, and was on a strong plan.* • The stockncic W:l'l sit untN1 inn ~m:ill prn;ril' nn tht> Wl'~t fnrlc- of the Rio del Norte The south fhnk jotning the cdgt.: o( the rivcr wluch at that place wa5 not fordable), the cast au <I wc~t wrtaim were finn ked by bastions in the north-e.st and north-west angles, which likewise.: flanked the curtain of the north side of the work. The stockade from the centre of the angk of the ba~tions was 36 feet square. There were heavy cotton-wood logq, about two feel diameter, laid u~ all round '\bout ~ix feet, after which lighter one~, until we maue it twelve fed lfl height : those log~ wt.:rc joined together hy ~~ lap of about two feet at each end. W c thu1 du~ a small ditd1 on the in bide all round, m:1lt ing tt perpendicular on the internal &ide and ~loping next the work. In thi:; ditch we planted s!llall ~t:tkcs,of b a out SI·X ·I ll\'1 I t'S <\ 't amet l'r, !1.l arpeneJ at the upper crlll to a nt· cc po·t m, s1a n tc ·d thcnt · · We over the top llf the work, giving them about two feet anJ a half proJcctton. . 1 then i c·curl'd them below and a hove iu that po~ition, which formed a small poutteu f n.~ c. w Iu .c Il must Il :lVC I1 ccu n :moved before the wm hs could have bc cn s'- alcd.· l.:1~tly, we had dutr a ditch round the wl~olc four fcl't wide, nlllllct the watct til nll round, the ca.rth tilkcn mtt being thrown ag<timt the worl formtcl au cx,cllcnt . l f . r in w:tl rampart a~:ltn~t ~ma I :tnns three or four fLct high. Our moclc 0 gettHI~ r l 1 · 1 1 level o to crJw over t ll: dttch OJ\ a plauk, and into a ~111all hole HUilk be ow t tr I . . 1 .0 ut ci~h·. t he work ncar t 1e nvcr for that purpo~c. Our port· holes Wl'rc ptcrl'l'! a 0 '" fn t from th~ ground, and a lll;~t(urm prepared tu 11hoot from. TO TilE SOURCtS OF Tfl~ AHKAN!jA'V & . l C. 19 1 7th February, Saturday Th l for Santa Fe * :.md · .- e <.. octor Jnarchcd alone ' .as It was uncertain whether thi, ., tlcman would ever Join me ag· · I h . s gcn- < <1111, at t at t11ne · the following testimonial of re.s ,p e,c t c . ' comnultcu 10 r Ius good 1 • . paper, which I do not 'lt tl1·s t' . · qua Illes to ' ( 1 unc fed aJ r .. face. He has had the b l •fi 1' t'. lY (Is positiOn to ef-enc tt o a Jberal e l r· . having spent his t" . l uca wn, WHhout unc as too many of colleges, viz. in skimm. ()' .. I o~r gentlemen do in · mb on t 1e surfaces of · Without ever end avo . · ' ~ciCnccs, the solid fo <1 • < Ullng to make themselves masters of un atiOns, but Robinson t r d with these qualificati"o . h . s U<. It and reasoned ; ~ ns e po~sesse i lib 1· too great ever to reject . 1 ~ . ~ a era Ity of mind agreeable to the d ctn' lypothcsis, because it was not ogmas ol the scho J-cause it had aU tl l , ·I· 0 s ; or adopt it, be- cci. vc great action1sc ~uc at o.f novdty- h'. 1 IS sou could con-them. . 1 . . ' '" ld lus hanJ was ready to atchi, ' m s 101 t, It tnay truly be saiJ that nol1 H .n g wevase .'f hus fo rt'lflie d, I should not have had Span•-h horse at defiance until th: !i the least hesitattou of putting- the roo our_csrape under cover of the d.tr~cn~:st~r second uigkt, and theu to h.tvc rnJdc re.tm.gundcr a full confidence of our bein or m: tle a :;ally and tli~perscd them, when The demands which D R b' g plnlc ~truck by thl·ir numbers and ror . I . . r. o lll ~on h· d ' ' ce. cg•t•mate, were in som , d . . ·' on pcr~ons in New Mcx•co dtll ·b folio · e t grce spunous in his l . • oug f w. VJZ.-!n the year r8o4 W 'JJ'· . ~ands : the <.Jrcnntstanccs were :111 O Ka&l tab k't as, sent a nJan by tl 1 tatu Mornson .F.. sq. an cmcrpri ~iug mcr tlnnt country u h . 1e name of U.thtislc La I J ' • F p t e M·~~ouri anti I a PJ· _,. . , • .an,,e, :t rcole of the h•'e . He sc nt . I "' atte, ulrectw•r him if '11 Ill udiaus, and the S . . I b podqt > e to push into Santa I un and ltis good s 1. 11to the pro · pant..a n .~ came out wi th hors e,s , d . .ttl c.trncd and offered him and the wonn:u;c.e. l 11· mJmg that he ~old the g-ood~ hin It lud convert the ro , mtc : \C concluded to ex ·. , . o , M . p pcrty of Morri~on t I . . p.!tnatc lum~df and orrtson con . . o ,,, own bl'll"Cit \Vhen r on the R , . CCIVIng that it was pos5ihl<.: th.lt J n~i . was about to sail • With L cd nvcr, intrusted me with tl , ·I· . . ght meet ~ome .Spani~h f JCtors a Lande 1 · le <: aun, 10 order if tl . . . frontier~, the ·,/ might uegotiate the thiug with som,' f 1~y wet (' acquamtcd so . . I en sugge~tcd itr.clf . e o them. \Vheu ou the n to VloJt Santa F, W to us of IJ.lakmg th is cl.tim a . , , r . fortha . , c. c therefore vavc it th. . ' PI ete:tt wr Ro,,m-of tr dt pl.icc. Our views were tog . . . k e pr opcr appcaramc, and he marched J c, force & g.nu a nowll.!dg • f J him a . ' c. whilst, at the " 'illlC t ' .e o t l e country, the prospect • s a c t' '7 ' unc our tr · · · debts d, I txcn of the Uuited St·tt .. I '. e.tttes With ~p :tiu truarautccu to or em a d l ' t s, t te n ght of , I . c , L· n s )Lforc the I I !>ce n a g- trw rec..ov~.ry <)f ll . '-'llltU · h . ega and · 1 · . ·' J U~t tn ulmant of the ~a ' • .'tut wnsed tnbunals of the cr>uutry .,, . [· , • me, as ~pectficd in the.. ~ z d . ·I . , , . .t t :tn- arttl c of s~utl treaty. |