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Both. roads meet again before Saucillo. The San Pablo road is several 
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miles nearer; but as we understood that amiry plain near San Pablo, covered 
with i Alea ea — by rains Decne Serpe we took the Santa Cruz 
‘road, arrived there in good tim ped about one mile south of the 
‘town. Santa Cree is a tolerabl pep a he town, and is said to contain, 
with the ere ke heen arenes Saharan, The San Pe- 
‘dro creck runs @ townsit is a clear am, that comes. from 
the western ouhtaitt Bbedk 100 ues west ast of Sat ta , Omuz Ly and fakes a seml- 
rders. San Pa blo 0, the town 1 Ww Scie we. had pate i 
sion from Chihuahua, lies about eight miles below Santa acer ,on 
- Pedro, and seems to be a flourishing place, with about 4,000 ‘the ritants. | 
There is rich cultivated Jand along the stream, upon. which they raise a | 
good deal of maize and some cotton. Near our camp s stand a flour. mill 
_ and a cotton-gin. The latte ‘seemed tobe abandoned, buta basin in which 
“the cotton used to be washe with a water: fall of about 10 feet, afforded 
“usa weiter shower-bath. "We st iayed bi ere also the next day. 
we left for Saucillo, (23 miles.).. We travel. our day’ s 
march always Piha a noon-halt, which i is certainly the most convenient 
for an army. Our way led through the same valley, covered with chapar- 
ral; the road was good, but not quite so level as heretofore Near Saucillo 
the mountains approach each other, and form south of ita re gap lead- 
“ing into another valley. Saucillo itself i is atown on the Conchos.. ‘This 
‘river, whose water-cours 2s extend ovet one- th id of the State of Chihuahua, 
Bis from “a north western height f e Sierra Madre, takes first a ‘south- 
hen an eastern and northeastern, ae at last a ps rh disectiony. and 
- fallg; néar Presidio ss piu ues eau also. called, Presi sid de las. untas 
into ‘the Rio Gra ts : eS, alt its chara 
ter as changeable as s that of the ees riverss at present it was rather a 
small st : 
ie some b ailvor mines are worked, 
the ore of P which i is ata here; it is eae with lead, send affords bu’ 
ne to one anda be ounce of silver in the carge a, but the a 
af "taneous § production of‘ a” (oxyde of lead) makes it erthcless quite 
able. Gt a eine ww lime- 
since we. left. Rate oe ig ‘here I saw 
Bie. er chdad ‘of prevailing porphyritie rocks. 
o i] 30.— Went 30 miles to-day, to. oy A a 
_ from the former valley to a new one, is about five miles 4 an 
“over it is hilly. Nearly half way we passed through paisa 
town, and further below. through las Garzagpa smaller pla 
we crossed the Con ache) sore followed a haba up to the re 
the Florido river flows into There opposi 
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to by the” Mexicans for cubes and, 
. ‘Yjsit them, but Dr. G 
thle temperature of the di 
