1895. ] Explorations of Thomas Coulter. 523 
some accessible place the details of his route. I therefore ap- 
pend suitable extracts from his Notes on Upper California and 
present also a photolithographic reproduction of a portion of 
the map issued with his paper. (Plate XXXV.) 
[p. 60] “It will not be necessary to enter, at present, into much de- 
tail of my journeys in the country, of which the principal was that 
Gila. 
ody of troops which 
on a most urgent affair, was 
P. 
obliged to wait for ten days to allow the sand to settle. 
From Monterey southward the road runs through a series of nar- 
1€The mission of La Purissima Concepcion, originally situated on the south 
bank of the Santa Inez river, about half way between Inez and the sea, 
but in 1813-1 5 moved to a new site about two miles northeastward on the old 
Wagon road between San Luis Obispo and Santa Inez. 
