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when they were under the charge of the missions they were all 
comfortable and happy, but since the good priests had been removed, 
“and the missions placed in the hands of the people of the country, 
they had been ill-treated. This change took place in 1836, and 
many of the missions passed into the hands of men and‘their con- 
nexions, who had effected the change. 
“Near the house is the source of the Aqua Caliente, a magnificent 
hot spring, of the temperature of 137° Fahrenheit, discharging from 
_ the fissure of a granite rock a large yolume*of water, which, for a 
ee distance down, charges the air with the fumes of sulphuretted 
hydrogen. Above it, and draining down the same valley, is a cold 
spring of the temperature of 45°, and without the aid of any me- 
_ chanical instrument, the cold and warm water may be commingled 
_ to suit the temperature of the bather. 
The Indians have made pools for bathing. thes eee around 
_ the basin of the spring to’ catch the genial warmth of its vapors, and 
aters, ramble over the hills which surround it on all sides, 
under ‘the shade of the great live oaks that grow in the 
road to San Diego. The general at once despatched Marshall to 
2 te and open on the outside to the hip, beneath which were 
: _ Grawers of spotless white; his leggins were of black buck-skin, and 
» Tmade * paservamearg at night for time and latitude, but.the flying» 
clouds, and the trembling ground on which we were encamped, 
made it a delicate operation. ; $i® : 
— mati received on the 2d, that fifteen miles distant, on 
the road to the Pueblo, a band of horses and mules were catched, 
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_ belonging to General Flores and others. Tired as our people were, 
