TO PARRAS. AT 
well, whence it is conducted into a long trough built 
of stone. Here the mules and cattle drank, the wo- 
men did their washing, the people in general per- 
formed their ablutions, and got their supply of water 
to drink. By tapping the fountain near its source, we 
got pure water.” | 
November 18th. On leaving El Gallo (as it is often 
called for shortness) we entered some low hills, and 
soon after crossed a plain about twelve miles wide, 
when. we reached a range of rocky hills with fantastic 
summits. Through defiles in these we passed, and 
entered a broad valley beyond, such as we had not 
* Much as the people of the United States have been ridiculed on 
account of the singular names applied by them to places, those of Mexi- 
co are at least equally guilty in this respect. Every State has all the 
saints in the calendar applied to something either a village, hacienda, 
or a rancho; and the Guadalupes and Concepcions are as common as 
our Washinetons and Franklins. The aboriginal names are, many of 
them, very pretty and sonorous, and these are often retained, but not 
without some holy préfix, generally the name of a saint, as though we 
were to say, Saint Nicholas of Manhattan, Saint Peter of Passama- 
quoddy, etc. In looking over a geographical dictionary I find the fol- 
lowing, some of which occur as often as our Adamses and Jeffersons. 
Nombre de Dios, 
Madre de Dios, 
Todos Santos, 
Corpus Christi, 
Trinidad, 
Valgame Dios, 
Sacramento, - 
La Purissima Concepcion, 
Dolores, 
Lus Cinco Senores, 
San Pedro del Boca Leones, 
Santa Cruz del Rosaria, 
Cieneguita de Jesus Maria, 
La Santa Magdalena, 
The name of God. 
The Mother of God. 
All Saints. 
Christ's Body. 
Trinity. 
God save me. 
Sacrament. 
The most pure Conception. 
Grief. 
The five lords. 
Saint Peter of the Lion’s mouth. 
The Holy Cross of the Rosary. 
Jesus Mary's Little Swamp. 
The Holy Magdalen. 
