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‘left the Colorado this morning for the Ocaté creek, (six 
contained: -_ little Ager at that time, but its. bed of 
ee banks s made fer a big river, which 
#28 times. On Oou6 nso dake are some pines, the first 
1 teen the road. The clevation of the Ocaté above the 
out OWL00 feet. © We started in the afternoon for Wagon mound. 
O ad) as us ee through a wide plain, with the constant view of the 
northwest m ns before us. rapes way a hail-storm overtook us, and 
forced us to ses 2 in the prairie, (12 mil 
93.—Made\ this morning 12 Balls to Santa Clara. -We are travel- 
‘ a high plain, though more encompassed by mountains than 
oun 
ym: isolated mountains rise in the plains through which we 
road passes.at the foot of the highest of them, the so-called 
ound, Which J ascended as far as the rocks would allow. On 
n oun’ I found for the first time a dry specimen of the Opun- 
ngs) oe ee throughout Mexico, and whose porous 
ste as térches. The rock composing the Wagon 
mound is a compact black nd spotted basalt, that rises on the top to steep, 
rpendicular, eaoneele columns: of about 100 feet. During my excursion 
‘the caravan had come to a ee atid camped on a spring ‘near the Wagon 
mound, called the Santa ‘On riding to sic I was taken by sur- 
prise at hearing suddenly the, was sound of a trumpet, and seeing a 
eaptain, with — Mexican Sieh a da flock of sheep, encamped near the 
va soldiers locked as: pie and miserable as they could be. 
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barefooted.” of them were armed with short 
‘lances, like the Ciboleros, but few ha After all, they made 
<8 payer appearance; and fy 
with the most friendly intentions. — 
by the Governor of Santa Fe to reeeive ivei pete ans, to Twam: = from 
ps camped. i in the ae without water, thd Mexicans some distance from 
satin e 24. went i in the morning but five miles, to eke creek. The de- 
seent on the river bank is very steep and tocky. | The creek, as well as the 
daloidal pasdbecwinli quartzose 
sandstone. below, both horizontal. = 5 ha and cundey shrubs, grow 
-along the ereek; the gra ss and water are good. 
of ‘cereal wee this morning quiets over Y the d ssowldbs we heard i in the distante 
impresion which ne xt ee 3 3 ve 
' surpassed byt the ere eft, when with say, alte thes I descried ‘the 
action produced ‘unearthly music—a Me: 
ican carréta. $i agine to yee a cart, made ‘any nails o 
My n of pai - two solid wheels comes of the a of ar 
and im 
© were dressed in mere rags; some seated - 
