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[8:34] (1) Taos Kualdfd, of obscure etymology {huala unexplaiued; 

 fa ' down at' ' over at'). " Kualiita".' 



(2) Eng. Arro\'o Hondo settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (-i). 



(3) Eng. Los Montes settlement. (<Span.). = Span. (5). 



(-1) Span. Arroyo Hondo 'deep gidlj'', referring to [8:32]. 

 = Eng. (2). 



(5) Span. Los Montes ' the forests', referring probably to [8:32]. 

 = Eng. (3). "Los Montes".- Mr. Melacpiias Martinez says 

 that the name Los Montes is never applied to this town at the 

 present Ao^y. 



Arroyo Hondo settlement is about 3 miles above the junction 

 of [8:32] with the Rio Grande. The settlement lies on both sides 

 of the creek. 

 [8:35] (1) Eng. Valdez settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (2). 

 (2) Span. Valdez (Span, family name). =Eng. (1). 

 Valdez town is situated just below the mouth of the canyon 

 [8:33]. Unlike Arroyo Hondo settlement, Valdez lies entirely on 

 the north side of the creek. 

 [8:36] Eng. John Dunn's sulphur spring. Cf. [8:31]. 

 [8:37] (1) Pe'djefiyf 'coyote ears mountain' {de 'coyote'; ^oje 'ear'; 

 ViVf 'mountain'). =Taos (2). Cf. Eng. (3), Span. (4). 



(2) Taos Tiiqwatdh^at'unq, 'coyote ears mountain' {tuqwa- 'coy- 

 ote'; tdlud- 'ear'; t'u 'pile' 'mountain'; «4 noun postfix). 

 = Tewa (1). Cf. Eng. (3), Span. (4). 



(3) Eng. Orejas mountain. (<Span.). = Span (4). Cf. Tewa 

 (1), Taos (2). 



(4) Span. Cerro Orejas 'ears mountain'. =Eng. (3). Cf. 

 Tewa (1). Taos (2). 



The mountain is said to resemble ears in some waJ^ 

 [8:38] A bridge constructed in l'.*ll to facilitate the driving of sheep. 

 [8:39] (1) Eng. Cebolla spring. (<Span.). = Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Ojode la Cebolla, Bajadade la Cebolla 'onion spring' 

 'onion slope'. =Eng. (1). 

 There is a spring of sulphurous water at this place. 

 [8:40] (1) l/qquiolopiyf, llqqwalopiyf, M(jqwalupiyj>, borrowed 

 from the Taos language {Mqqwolo-, etc. <Taos (2); piyj' 

 ' mountain') . By some Tewa this name is perhaps applied vaguely 

 to the whole Taos Range [8:24]. 



(2) Taos Mdqwalun^, of obscure etymology {laq, unexplained; 

 qwalii 'high', cf. qwalalamd 'it is high'; nq. noun postfix). 

 = Tewa(l). "One of them [referring to ruins of tlie Taos people] 

 to which I was told they gave the name of Mojua-lu-na, or Mo- 



> Budd, Taos vocabulary, MS. in Bur. Amer. Ethn. 



2 U. S. Geographical Surveys We^t of the 100th Meridian, Parts of Southern Colorado and Northern 

 New Mexico, atlas sheet No. 69, 1873-1877. 



875S4°— 29 ETH— 16 12 



