. 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 . ornianladies are said to possess all the finer qualities of thesex, whether of the head or the heart, and to makemost excellent wives. Such have been the attractionsof these fair senoritas for the young American officers,that many have been induced to relinquish their com-missions in the United States army, and becomeplanters or stock raisers in California. While detained here, I
. 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 . ornianladies are said to possess all the finer qualities of thesex, whether of the head or the heart, and to makemost excellent wives. Such have been the attractionsof these fair senoritas for the young American officers,that many have been induced to relinquish their com-missions in the United States army, and becomeplanters or stock raisers in California. While detained here, I took occasion to visit themonument erected at the Initial Point, on the Pacific,of the boundary between the United States and Mexi-co, one marine league south of the southernmost point TO SAN DIEGO. 105 of the Bay of San Diego. It is an obelisk of whitemarble, resting on a pedestal, and is about twenty feetin height. It stands near the margin of the table-land, about two hundred yards from the sea shore, andbears the name of the Commissioner, Surveyor, andAstronomer of the two governments, together withthe latitude and longitude, viz.: Latitude north, 32° 31 59 58; Longitude, 7h 48 21 01 west from
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