SrANISII INSCRIPTIONS. 15 



the inscriptions and a few isolated names on the north face of 

 the rock. It is hoped they may add something to the accuracy 

 of memorials likely to be soon destroyed. 



Some of the translations by the authors above cited are left 

 uncertain or incomplete. Solutions of some of these difficulties 

 are suggested in the following transliterations and translations. 



PLATE I. 



Rl (Ha 14 (le Jvlyo de 1736 paso por aqni 

 el gen (era) 1 Jnaii Paez Hvrlado vis^-lador 

 y en sn conpania el cabo Josei)4i Trnxillo 



The daj' 14 of July of 1736 passed b}^ here 

 the general Jiian Paez Hiirtado, inspector, 

 and in liis c;)inpany the corporal Joseph Trnxillo. 



Represented by Simpson on his plate No. 67 and translated 

 on page 124. Represented and translated by Lumniis, page 176. 



Simpson erroneously renders " Truxillo " as "Armenta," 

 and adds eight other names to this inscription. These names 

 are at various distances to the right of it, and, even if contem- 

 poraneous, the circumscribing lines distinctl}^ exclude them. 



Juan Paez Hurtado was lieutenant govei-nor in 1704 and 

 1705, governor and captain-general in 17 12, and inspector- 

 general in 1716.''- This inscription makes him inspector-gen- 

 eral also in 1736. 



platp: II. 



Soy de niano d (e) Felip de A 

 rellano a 16 de Selienil:)re sol 



dado 



I am from (the) hand of Philip de A- 

 rellano on 16 of September Sol- 



dier. 



This inscription is not given by Simpson, his plate of the 

 nearest other inscription not covering the location of this. 



*W. W. H. Davis, "The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico," 

 Doylestown, Pa., i.S^g, page 421. 



