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in short, similar in every respect to the existing pueblo 
Mexico, and to the ruins of the Casas Grandes describ. he. 
erroneously to the Aztecs. é is ae 
With respect to New Mexico, one principal want is that of voca- 
-bularies, which would at once settle the question of identity with 
any of the Mexican nations. Thesame difficulty exists with re- 
sae to all the tribes of the country drained by the great Rio Co- 
ora 
specting the actual situation of what were called the seven villages 
of Cibala; of which’we can only say, that they were situated in a 
narrow valley six leagues long, and on the yery sources of some 
Gila. - 
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one branch of the Rio Gi 
of the river Gila on the 20th; now what I wish to know, is, © 
om what quarter did that main branch come, or in other words, . 
if you had ascended that main branch, what was its apparent course? 
What was the distance from the western foot of the Sierra Mim- 
_ bres to that main branch where you struck it? Did you, along that 
_ distance, cross any tributary streams of the Rio Gila, and from 
what quarter did they come? 
_ 2d. Can you furnish me with the approximate latitude of some 
- of the principal points observed when descending the river; prin- 
_ cipally the junction of the Salmas, the village of the Pimos In- 
_ dians, any other spot where evident traces of ruins were discovered, 
and the mouth of the river Gila. From what quarter did the river 
Salmas come? Did you carfy time with you, so as to obtain the 
relative longitude of some points? The most important would be — 
_ the spot where you left the Rio del Norte, that where ' 
_ the main branch of the Gila, the mouth of the Salmas, 
village, and the mouth of the Rio Gila. If you had no other means, 
till your travelled distance may ‘give a rough approximation. 
It seems to me that the easiest way to answer these two queries, 
You did not visit the mouth of the great 7 Colorado: but 
K th of the Gila was 
