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8. Santa Lucia, 10 leagues. 
9. Santa Nynfa, 5 u 
X. Nuestra Senora de los Dolores del Norte—Padre Fer¬ 
nando Consag. This mission is joined with that of San Igna¬ 
cio, and cultivated by the Padres Sistiaga and Consag; within its 
district, which lies 30 leagues from San Ignacio, and in the Lat. 
of 29°, there are already 548 baptized Indians. 
XI. Santa Maria Magdalena, begun in the north by the same 
Padre Consag, who writes concerning it to the Padre Provincial, 
Josef Barba; yet no convenient place for its seat is to be 
found, though the converts are as well disposed and regular as 
those of San Ignacio. 
XII. San Jago del Sur, Padre Antonio Tempis. 
1. San Jago, 33°. 
2. The anchoring place of Santa Maria de la Luz. 
XIII. Nuestra Senora del Pilar de la Paz. Of this mission 
no account comes with the others ; nor of those which have 
been restored, which are— 
XIV. Santa Rosa in Palmas Bay. 
XV. San Josef del Cabo de S. Lucas at the station of the 
new garrison. 
XVI. San Juan Baptista, begun in the north at the village 
of San Juan Baptista, but not yet established. 
These are the missions of Lower California in the year 
1745. They contain about twenty-five thousand converts 
living comfortably under the paternal government of the 
Jesuit Padres. Padres Salva Tierra, Kino and Ugarte are 
dead; but the good deeds which they have done, like the 
grass and the flowers on their graves, grow greenly, bud 
and blossom, and shed on the deserts of the Californian pe¬ 
ninsula, a perpetual harvest of temporal and religious joy. 
The handicrafts which they have taught them; the science of 
agriculture which they have given them; the animals which 
they have reared around their dwellings ; the great idea of 
a God; and the awards which He has woven inseparably 
with the elements of life, mind, and every condition of being ; 
the discomfort, debasement, and misery of vice ; the quietness, 
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