Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . ose de Comondulong flourished. Crops were large and certain, much wineand brandy were made and live stock multiplied. Theiglesia was richly furnished and had a library of over ahundred volumes. This is the sum of the historic data ofthe old chroniclers. The mission was built with the usual iglesia, ell and patiodesign. With inspiring majesty its massive stone walls andsubstantial pillars stand sentinel above the inroads of time,earthquakes and vandalism. Though vandals,
Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . ose de Comondulong flourished. Crops were large and certain, much wineand brandy were made and live stock multiplied. Theiglesia was richly furnished and had a library of over ahundred volumes. This is the sum of the historic data ofthe old chroniclers. The mission was built with the usual iglesia, ell and patiodesign. With inspiring majesty its massive stone walls andsubstantial pillars stand sentinel above the inroads of time,earthquakes and vandalism. Though vandals, seeking forbuilding stone, have made a breach in one wall and growingtrees have ripped open the stone and cement roof above thealtar, the somber walls, four feet in thickness, retain theirsolidity. Unshaken, too, are the eight Grecian pillars,each a metre in diameter, placed four on either side of themain aisle of the iglesia and supporting the arched roof, thekeystones of which are so cunningly set as to defy the cen-turies. Narrow windows and low doorways admit thelight. Above the main entrance there is a choir The walled-up doorway of the Mission of San Josede Comondu TO LORETO 207 reached by a narrow spiral stairway of thirty-three roof is vaulted and, in places, still resplendent withred frescoing. Above the eaves stone torches flame up-ward, and stone cylinders, perhaps for the drainage of rain-water from the roof, point outward like cannon. The altarhas been destroyed; at its right and left there are small,dark rooms. In length the interior of the church measuresforty-five paces, in width, sixteen; its height must approxi-mate ten metres. I obtained an excellent view of the in-terior by climbing to the crest of the wall behind the ruinedaltar and looking down through the wide rent made in theroof by growing trees; from the outlook before me I mighthave been gazing into some ancient crypt. The wing, forming with the iglesia the ell, is in perfectstate of
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