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Show AGUAGE DE SAN PACIFICO. 315 league and a half to finish it; and with yet another league and a half did I arrive at the watering- place that I named ( Aguage) de San Pacifico. In the afternoon I went two leagues to the southsoutheast, and one other eastward.* Plenty of grass. from Mojave as far as Truxton's springs { which see, beyond). So we can confidently follow Garces into this desert, where all travel before the railroad came through was necessarily directed from one aguage to another, and the traveler who failed to find them was liable to perish of thirst. ' The Sierra de Santiago or St James range of Garces is that immediately bordering the Colorado on the east, separating the great river valley from the Sacramento valley which intervenes between this range and the Cerbat range. In my time ( 1865) the Sierra de Santiago was called the Sacramento range, from the name of the Sacramento valley of which it forms most of the western boundary. But the earliest name I know of is the Black range, of Ives' Report and map, given because the range to the northward is traversed by Black canon, through which the Colorado flows; and Black mountains is also the name on the latest U. S. Geological Survey maps, though the Land Office maps call this range the Blue Ridge mountains. The main road over the range goes through Union pass, which I have traversed & YC times. It is perfectly easy for light wagons, and not very difficult for freight trains. Going across the Sacramento valley from Beale's springs ( vicinity of Kingman, on the railroad) the road is due west to Union pass, on the summit of which the Mojave valley of the Colorado spreads before the view in a beautiful prospect; the descent is rapid to the river at Hardy, or Hardyville, consisting of a house or two in the river bottom; whence it is five or six miles down river to old Fort Mojave. Union pass has been the scene of at least one Indian ambuscade and attack upon passing whites; and I have |