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CO N T E NT S . 



Monterey — Coahuila — Boundary, Position, Climate, Productions, Towns — State 

 of Durango — Boundary, Character, Divisions, Streams, Productions — City of Du- 

 rango — Towns, Mines, Iron, Silver — Indian necrology — Cave burial, . . 324 



CHAPTER XII.— State of Chihuahua— Position, Boundaries, Extent, Character- 

 istics, Rivers, Lakes, Indians, Divisions, Climate, Productions — Cattle estates — 

 Mint— Mines — Principal towns — Chihuahua — El Paso del Norte — Military impor- 

 tance — El Paso wine, etc. — Antiquities — Indian ravages — The Bolson deMapimi 

 — Mexican modes of travelling and transportation— Litera — Mules — Arrieros — 

 Conducta — Coaches— Freight wagons — Mexican habit of Home-staying — want of 



exploration — Modern advancement, 334 



Appendix No. 1 — Profile of the Plateau — Mexico to Santa F6" — Santa Fe to the 

 Gulf, 346 



Appendix No. 2 — Mexican Coins, Weights and Measures, . . . . 347 



BOOK VI. 



TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.— Exploration of the far west— Long, Nicol- 

 let, Fremont — Santa Fe trade — First adventurers — Caravans — New Mexico erected 

 by Congress into a territory — Geological structure of New Mexico — The Rio 

 Grande — Its value — Soil — Products — Irrigation — Cattle — Indians — Mines — Gold — 

 Silver — Copper — Iron — Gypsum — Salt — Climate — Pueblo Indians — Wild Indians 

 enumerated — Number of Pueblo Indians — Census — Proximate present population — 

 Character of people and government — Santa Fe — Alburquerque — Valley of Toas — 

 Statistics of Santa Fe trade, etc. — Itinerary from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe 

 and El Paso . . . . . 351 



STATE OF CALIFORNIA.— Title to the region— Missionary settlement, its pur- 

 poses — Character of California — Secularization of missions — Population in mis- 

 sions — Agricultural statistics — Cattle — Hides — Tallow — Herdsmen — Trade — The 

 war — Condition of California at its close— Progress of settlement and law — Con- 

 stitution adopted — Admission as a state — Former boundaries — The great Basin — 

 Utah — Great Salt Lake — Pyramid lake — Rivers — Present state boundaries — Area — 

 Geography — Sacramento — San Joaquin — Shastl peak, 367 



STATE OF CALIFORNIA CONTINUED.— Configuration of the state— Bay of 

 San Francisco and city — Rivers of California — Character of soil, etc. — Relative 

 sterility and productiveness — Climate — Dry and wet seasons — Causes of change — 

 Climate in San Francisco, coast range valleys and interior valley — Area of arable 

 and grazing land — Productions — Discovery of gold — Its position — The placeres — 

 Washing — Digging — The Mines — Calculations as to the yield of the mines — Gold 

 yielded by California — Its quality — Quicksilver mines — Commerce — Population — 

 Growth of cities — Old presidios — Towns — Land titles — Mission lands — Con- 

 clusion, 378 



Appendix. — Meteorological Observations in California, . ... 398 



