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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
beating of life mingles with a prayer for blessings on his in¬ 
fant missions. The bereaved Friars watch his last breath and 
close his eyes on the day of San Augustine, in the year 1782. 
His life has been nearly seventy-one years long ; fifty-three 
of which have been spent in holy orders, thirty-five in the 
stem and trying duties of a missionary in the New World. 
Thus closed the life and earthly labors of Padre Junipero. 
NAMES OF MISSIONS, AND DATES OF THEIR FOUNDATION. 
Date of Foundation. Missions. 
1769, 
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San Diego, [de Monterey. 
1770, 
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San Carmelo, or San Carlos 
1771, 
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San Gabriel. 
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San Antonio de Padua. 
1772, 
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San Luis Obispo. 
1776, 
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San Juan Capistrano. 
1777, 
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Santa Clara. 
1779, 
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San Francisco. 
1782, 
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Santa Buenaventura. 
1786, 
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Santa Barbara. 
1787, 
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La Purissima Concepcion. 
1791, 
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Na Sade la Soledad. 
1794, 
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Santa Cruz. 
1797, 
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San Miguel. 
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San Jose. 
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San Juan Bantista. 
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San Fernando. 
1798, 
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San Luis Rey de Francia 
1817, 
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San Rafael. 
1822, 
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San Francisco Solano. 
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Santa Ines. 
These missions at length became very rich, and from 1793 
to 1820 sold an immense quantity of hides and tallow to Ame¬ 
rican and British ships which visited the coast. An anec¬ 
dote related to me by an intelligent man in California is in 
point. Previous to 1793 the Padres killed the surplus bulls 
