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Ex. Doc. No. 41. 



dred thousand; and in one place, between camps 91 and 97, .there is 

 a long wide valley, twenty miles in length, -much of which is 

 covered with the ruins of buildings and broken pottery. 



These ruins are uniformly of the Same kind; not one stone now 

 remains on the top of the other; and they are only discoverable by 

 the brol^en pottery around them, and stone laid in regular order, 

 showing the trace of the foundation of a house. 



Most of these outlines are rectangular, and vary from 40 x 50 

 to 200 and 400 feet front. The stone are unhewn, and are most of 

 an amygdaloid, rounded by attrition. ^., . •, .i. 



Now of the tributaries which come into the Gila from the nortn, 

 there are several besides the Salinas, which, at their mouths, are 

 insignificant in size and can be stepped across; but in this whole 

 region no legitimate inference can be drawn of the size of a river, 

 throu^rhout its course, from that at any one point. 



It may be large near its source, and after traversing desercs oi 

 ^ sand, through arid regions, unwatered by rains, become very small, 

 'and even disappear altogether. . 



Therefore, except the Salinas, of which we have oral account^, 



nothintr is known or can be inferred of the magnitude of these tri- 



■butarie°s from their appearance at the junction. These tributaries 



come in near camp 81, where the mountains are so precipitous ana 



expedition 

 Its general 



bold no conjecture can be formed of their course. 



The Salinas must have been the branch by whicu u 

 of Coronado ascended and crossed into New Mexico, ^ 

 direction is not far from a line drawn from its mouth to J>anta r , 

 and nearly in this line are the seven towns mentioned as bein o 

 the headwaters of the San Jose. Indians now pass from the i-im" 

 Tillage to New Mexico on this route.. :„fnrmed 



I omitted to mention in its proper place, that we were intorme 

 by an intelligent Marricopas Indian that, about fifty miles tromi" 

 mouth of the Salinas, was now standing, in a perfect sta ^ oi P 

 servation, the walls of a large three story building of mud, wun 

 'interior sides glazed and finely polished, and ^^out it was to 

 ^seen many traces of large acequias, and broken pottery m S 



abundance. . -,,,,,-»«- •« -nrhn like 



There is another tribe of Indians called the Moquis, who,^.^^ 



the Pimos and Soones, cultivate the ^f^^^^^^JU^^XTuov^, 

 "their neighbors; but the exact locality of this tribe I do notj^n , 

 beyond the fact that it is on or near the head waters ot some 

 the tributaries of the Gila. 



I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, ^ g^^joBY. 



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