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Show EXIT BY THE NUEBO CAN FRAN. 409 scended, which is in the direction of the west, where with some windings it mounts to a level place ( piano) that shall have of length about a quarter of a league, encompassed on the west and south by a very rough and rocky cliff ( sierra). I turned to go out by the Nuebo Canfran, having traveled about five leagues, for the most part south. July 16 [ so copy, correctly]. I traveled six leagues west, and arrived at the Pozo de las Rosas. 18 July 17. I set forth by the southwest, and making a turn to the west, passed over the Sierra de los Pi-nales that I had named ( Sierra) de San Diego, 19 and in the evening arrived at the Arroyo de San Alexo. 20 " Pine spring, his former camp: note ", p. 335 » June 19. " If Garc6s named this sierra before he omitted to so state in his journal, where no such name appears for June 18 or 19. But his Sierra de lbs Pinales or de San Diego is obviously the pine- clad heights of Aubrey's cliffs: note ", p. 330. " Arroyo de San Alexo is Diamond creek, or one of the heads of that system of canons, but I cannot locate this Cuer-comache rancheria to my satisfaction. The Cuercomaches appear to be a division of Yavapais unknown except for this single mention by our author. Furthermore, we shall have great difficulty in following Garces for the next few days. His language is altogether too short hereabouts to fetch him on to any position whence he can make the northing and westing presently indicated. I think he must be set to- day over into Mojave county, somewhere north of Peach springs- perhaps at the spring in the collateral canon of Diamond creek down which we have already gone to the Colorado ( p. 327). His |