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known land of Aztlan to Anahuac, they settled themselves 

 for a time on the banks of the Gila. The Franciscan monks, 

 Garces and Font, are the latest travellers who have visited 

 the Casas grandes, and they did so in 1773. They stated 

 the ruins to extend over above a square German mile (16 

 English square miles). The whole plain is strewed with 

 fragments of painted pottery. The principal palace, (if a 

 house built of unburut clay can be so designated), is 447 

 English feet long and 277 English feet broad. (See a 

 rare work printed in Mexico, and entitled Cronica serafica y 

 apostolica del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz 

 de Queretaro por Fr. Juan Domingo Arricivita). 



The Taye of California, as drawn by Father Venegas, 

 appears to differ little from the Ovis musimon of the Old 

 Continent. The same animal is also seen on the " Stony 

 Mountains," near the sources of the Peace Biver. Very 

 different from it, on the other hand, is the small white and 

 black spotted goat-like creature which feeds near the 

 Missouri and Arkansas rivers. The synonymy of Antilope 

 furcifer, A. tememazama of Smith, and Ovis montana, is still 

 very undetermined. 



( 27 ) p. 14). " The cultivation of farinaceous grasses" 



The original habitat of the farinaceous grasses is wrapped 

 in the same obscurity as that of the domestic animals which 

 have accompanied man since his earliest migrations. The 

 German word for corn, " Getraide," has been ingeniously 

 derived by Jacob Grimm from the old German gitragidi, 

 getregede. " It is as it were the tame fruit (fruges, frumen- 



