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Show ' 414 - Ex. Doc. No. 41. Agropyrum. Stranger ~reek. . Athrropogon o lygos:achiUm. Can:-ul1an nvcr. Koclcria nitiJa. Pawnee fork. EQUI F.TACEJE. F.quiset urn hy em ale. Ncar crossing of the Arkansas. • Ex. Doc. No. 41. 415 vYASIIIN(:'ro ·, December 6, 1817. In: I have the honor, at your rrqurf..t, to adtlrrs~ you a brief m (' m o i r o n t h e ~ u b j c c t o f t h e d i :-; t r i ct o f <' o u n t r y i n S lHl o r a, ~if t • , i e whi ch I passed o. cr in ~ovcmLt·r ;u_ul Dcccm?ur la t, with a wagor0~ train, when 1 deviated, tn f';<'arc·h of a pracllcablc ro ute, from the mul trail of J3rigacli cr Ucnrral S. \V. J carny, on his matt'h from Nrw Mrxico to California. _When he turned off from \1~<' H i_o : rnnclc-, opposi_te th<• co ppet· nunes and the hrach of the Cn_!a 11' r, l k<.pt tltc• 1'1\' ,·r for thirty miles to the south, and makmg a. southern U<'tl<1, turned again towards the north, and :-;trudc his rotrtc ( 1s surveyed hy Mr. J~~mory of your corps) ju~t above• t.l!c viil"gc of the Pimo and Maracopa Indians, an cslima.tc<l di ~1 ta11<'<' o{ •11 1 miles. Immediately below tlH• point of devi l lion, on 11H• Hio Orande the country bordering the rivn b<'c·amc sensibly fJa1te r and lcs; broken . 1 left the river whcll in vinv or a pl)iut marld·d on the common maps as" San Dit•go,'' an d th(' di. taut virw towards" }~1 Jla ~w" proved th country to lH' lllll>roh.(•n and com parnt i\ ely leveL li'rom the high va1ley of thr 1 i' t·r J a~c· Pnd<· cl to d1c table lanll of .Mexico, by an alm os~ in:c•tH:ibJ,. :lop e· ovrr .dnootlt prairie'. 1~'01 130 miles on this smootlt l<··n·l lahle Janel, wltich is studdrcl wit!t isolated hills or mountai11~, 1 jolll'lH')Cd wtthout any difTictdt}, passing over Lut thr<•c h ill ~, in lwo ca~:rs, J know, in tltt· tf11 t, 1· J bcli ve, unnc't essa rily. I then, Ult<•xpectt•d ly and ~uddeuly, .:r r l \ f d at a grcnt Lrcak off loa l <nH!r Jerel of c·otutlry, tltc cl< '<' ' It 1Cl whieh was very Lrokcn and rou~h mountai ns for fiftt'<'H 111 i lc·s. found, h o,yc\·cr, tl1at l had :1t t h:1t JUOinent fall <'n into <trl old wa •ron trnil, which Jed, 1 was told. frow Yanos. Iwa:-~ ab}p to get my v.ngous through, following a strl''tiH all tlw way, and d<'scrnding in the 15 miles p os::;ibly a tltous,tnd f<•cl. This was :he 1ll·iHI of the TTuaqni river, wl1ich empties into th r Califoruia gull. 1 \\US told that this wns called lhe Pass of (luad ,tlo upr. I then 11a:scd an unbrok <'n .-ountry, about 0 miles, when J fc·ll upon the .Jo:6 lledro ri\rr, w}, idl e1npt ics into the Uil a. 1 dcsccndc'd this \vithout difliculty (l{' g round abott l 80 miles. In turnjng off th rc is an as ,rnt 1o n c.tr ly l evi'! eo untry of, ]H'rhilp:, a:Jovc an hundred fe '1 , but it could br· wadt• very g raduaL ll is tlH'Il nhou t 48 miles to 'l\1 cson, a town of about fJOO inhabitnnts \\ itn a fort and garrison. This distunc-l' is over 111u ch smoolh f! l ou:HI , maintaining tb same rrc•ncra l lt:\ eJ. Tut son is in a ri ch and we 11 c·uJtivated vallt·y, ,,':hel'c' tht·rc· is a lsu a clru:->E.' forest o(' ma/''UC.IJ· ~'rom Turi'on it is .,;omc 75 P1 i l s to th e (;il a. It is a Jc•\e l plain, gt'nerally of' clny, wh re my \\,lgons arJ(l footmrn (water being Ycry scarce) pa sed at the rate of about 30 milrs a day |