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Title: On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781 Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Missions -- Mexico Sonora (State) Missions -- Arizona Missions -- California Southwest, New -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : F. P. Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d at the promised land of Mexico, and in their sojourns,which were long, they formed settlement, and edifices. Thesite on which is found this Casa is level in all directions, andapart from the river Gila about one league, and the ruins ofthe houses which formed the settlement extend more than aleague to the east and the rest of the winds; and all this groundis strewn with pieces of jars, pots, plates, &c, some plain, andothers painted of various colors, white, blue, red, &c, an indica-tion that it was a large settlement, and of a distinct people fromthe Pimas Gilenos, since these know not to make such pottery.We made an exact inspection of the edifice, and of its situation,and we measured it with a lance for the nonce, which measure-ment I reduced afterward to geometrical feet, and a little moreor less it h the following: The Casa is an oblong squareiquadrilonga—mm carre long), and perfectly to the four cardinalwinds, east, west, north, and south, and roundabout (al rededor)
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Contour Intervol. I. Foot. GROUND PLAN OF CASA GRANDE (AFTER MINDELEFF) FONT ON CASA GRANDE. 95 are some ruins, which indicate some enclosure or wall (ccrco6 muralla), which surrounded the house and other buildingsparticularly at the corners (esquinas), where it seems there wassome structure like an interior castle, or watch-tower, for inthe corner which falls on the southwest there is a piece ofgroundwork with its divisions and an elevation (un pedazo enpie con sus divisiones, y un alto—remains of basement and wall).The exterior enclosure has from north to south 420. feet, andfrom east to west 260. The interior of the Casa is composedof five halls, the three equal in the middle, and one at eachextremity larger. The three (middle) halls have from northto south 26. feet, and from east to west 10. The two halls of theextremities (one at each end) have from north to south 12. feet,and from east to west 38. The halls have of height some 11.feet, and all are equal (in this respect). The

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