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which, as it gives a view of the civil ofHcers appointed for this ter- 

 ritory, may be of interest: 



*^Aviso." 



" Hallanrlome debi.kmente autorizado por el PresuTente de los 

 Estados Unidns de America, por la presente, hago los sl^uiontes 

 nombramientos, para la gobernacioa de Nueva Mejico, Territorio- 

 de los Estados Unidos. 



*'Los empleados asi nombrados seran obedecidos y respetadas 



-segun cnrresponde." ' j f- 



CARLOS BENT, sera Gobenador. 



FRANCISCO P. BLAIR, ^ Promoter JiLlWayor) 



CARLOS BLUMVIER, u Tesorero ^'''^V^^-) 



EUGENIC LERTENSDORFER, '' Yntendente de cuentas pub- 



licas. 



Joab Houghton, Antonio Jose Otero, y Carlos Bavbien, seran 



. jues de la suprema corteda de justicia, y cada uno en su districto, 



sera jues de circuto. ' 



"Dado en Santa Fe, capital del Territorio de Nueva Meiico, esta 

 d.a a 22 de Septetnbre, 1S16, y el 7r de le independencia de los 

 Lstados Unidos." 



• , S. W. KEARNY, 



General de Brigada del Egercito de los Estados Unidos.''^ 



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October 2.— This day we left our kind friends, and Senora Camp- 

 Cell bade us adieu with the greatest reluctance, assuring us that 

 ter house, and all it contained, were ever at our disposal; and al- 

 tbough poor, yet we would never find that her hospitality was 

 limited by the narrowness of her circumstances. In vain w« 

 pressed them to allow us to compensate them for their trouble: 

 they would not receive Pny remuneration. 



We now travelled rapidly, in order to reach Santa F^ before 

 'dark;- our mules, well laden with specimens, trotted along quite 

 briskly; we soon reached Rio de Gallsteo; on one of its tributa- 

 ries we found evidences of coal, and the bed of the main creek 

 jvas white with saline efflorescences. Crossing the creek we en- 

 tered a httle vale, traversed in various directions by walls of trap; 

 at one place we saw a wall that looked, at a little distance, as if 

 ^ade by human art; it was pierced as if for windows and doors. 

 A stranger whom we met insisted that this dike was one of the 

 j;estiores of the " Indies," w-ho lived here long long ago. But the 

 ^yclojps alone could have worked with such vast materials as 

 these. The planes of the joints and cleavage have formed the 

 Diass in fragments, consisting of rhomboidal prisms, whose axes 

 ^re perpendicular to the cooling surfaces. 



As we neared Santa Fe, we overtook a carreta loaded with little 

 urates filled with grapes; we bargained with the Pueblo Indians, 

 "W-ho were driving, and for a "metlia" procured as many bunches 

 •^s we wished; these, with some Spanish bread, formed our nooa. 



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