. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . pike, and so continueduntil we reached our camping ground, at the foot ofthe hills. To the south, at some fifty or sixty milesdistant, rose a high mountain, the intervening plainpresenting the most beautiful mirage I ever seemed like the surface of a broad lake, the mountainpeaks standing detached, like so many islands risingfrom the bed of its placid waters. If I ha
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . pike, and so continueduntil we reached our camping ground, at the foot ofthe hills. To the south, at some fifty or sixty milesdistant, rose a high mountain, the intervening plainpresenting the most beautiful mirage I ever seemed like the surface of a broad lake, the mountainpeaks standing detached, like so many islands risingfrom the bed of its placid waters. If I had not knownthat the region before me was a barren desert, I wouldcertainly have been deceived. Reached Mule Spring at one oclock. Estimated TO THE COPPER MINES. 219 distance travelled to-day, twenty-three miles. Thisspring is in an arroyo or ravine, and contains but a fewbarrels of water. Some ash and cotton-wood treesmark its course from the mountains where it Craig, when he passed here with his commanda few months before, opened the spring and sunk abarrel in it. The water is very good. In the rainyseason, this arroyo is probably filled with water, as thetrees and banks exhibit the marks of Approach to Mule Spring. Picacho de Mimbres. April 30th. On leaving Mule Spring, we turnednearly south, with a range of mountains on our was directly out of the general course of our route,which was to the north-west; but there was no otherway to pass the mountains. The road was excellent,and we traversed it rapidly, reaching Cookes Spring,twelve miles distant, at 11 oclock, where we stopped 220 EL PASO to water. This spring forms a pool, some fifty feetacross, surrounded by rushes. The water is a littlebrackish, but the grass in the vicinity is a hill on the south, which was strewn withfragments of chalcedony, of which some fine specimenswere collected. From this hill the Organ Mountainswere plainly seen, bearing a little south of east. Aft
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