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offices, Alcaldias Mayores and Corregimientos, besides 27 appoint- 

 ments in this district made by the Governor of New Vizcaya. 



522. In this city of Guadalajara there is a Cathedral where the 

 Bishop and Prebendaries reside and conduct services. It has excellent 

 Dominican, Franciscan, Augustinian, Mercedarian, and Jesuit con- 

 vents, a nunnery, a hospital for the care of the indigent sick, and 

 other churches and shrines. It occupies the area of a large city ; 

 all its houses have their orchards and gardens, delightful for relaxa- 

 tion, with indigenous and Spanish fruit trees. There are Officials 

 of the Royal Patrimony here, with jurisdiction over the whole 

 province. 



523. Near the city lies the Lake of Chapala, beside which is the 

 boundary with the Circuit Court of Mexico and the Diocese of 

 Michoacan. When Nuno de Guzman explored and subdued these 

 provinces, he established and colonized the towns of Espiritu Santo 

 in Tepic ; Santa Maria de Los Lagos, 30 leagues SW. of Guadalajara, 

 for which the President of the Circuit Court appoints an Alcalde 

 Mayor; the town of La Purificacion SW. of Guadalajara, near the 

 Pacific and the port of La Navidad ; and in the Province of Jalisco, 

 W. of Guadalajara, he founded Compostela, where the Cathedral 

 was originally established until it was moved in the year 1560 to 

 Guadalajara, where it is at present. Near the city lie the Jora mines, 

 with rich silver veins and ore deposits. 



524. In consequence of some controversies arising between Nuno 

 de Guzman and Don Fernando Cortes, Marques del Valle, Emperor 

 Charles V of glorious memory, while at Toledo on April 18, 1537, 

 appointed as Governor and Captain General of those kingdoms and 

 provinces, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, a gentleman native of 

 Salamanca. He was a descendant of the blood royal of the kings 

 of France ; his ancestors had settled in the Kingdom of Galicia, 

 where, for their great services rendered to the Spanish crown, they 

 were presented with the town of Vausende, together with the castle 

 and manor of Coronado. Accordingly when this noble knight had 

 arrived in this kingdom, named Greater Spain (Espana Mayor) by 

 Nufio de Guzman after his conquest of it, he found most of it in 

 rebellion and many of its provinces needing to be subdued. With 

 great courage, executive ability, and persistence, he succeeded in 

 overcoming the rebellion and restoring peace ; and for the above 

 reasons, he gave these provinces the name of Kingdom of New 

 Galicia, which it bears at present ; and his descendants, the Marqueses 

 de Villamayor, are its Commanders (Adelantados Mayores). 



