Males - - - - 3,484 Nuns - - - - 888 Total (not including the military) Note D. (Vol. II. p. 110.) I must add to the materials which have enabled me to draw up the history of the hydraulical works of the valley of Mexico, two manuscript memoirs, the one entitled, Relacion de la visita del desague real hecha en 1764; and the other, Auto formado en San Christobal, en el mes de Enero de 1764, por mando del illustrissimo Señor Don Domingo de Trespalacios, del supremo consejo y camara de Indias. According to these memoirs, the engineer Ildefonso Yniesta, found 65,250 varas from the banks of the Lake of Tezcuco, to the cascade of Tula, while the result of the trigonometrical operations and measurements under the direction of Professor Velasquez, makes the distance only 62,363 varas. This last result, which has been taken in the map of the valley of Mexico, must be regarded as the most accurate, not only on account of the perfection of the instruments employed in 1774, but also on account of the agreement between the distances of Velasquez and those determined by Martinez in 1611, who computed the distance from the Lake of Tezcuco to Vertideros at 35,421 varas. Velasquez fixed it at 35,168; and the measurement of Yniesta makes it 38,740 varas. Note E. (Vol. II. p. 194.) I have discussed in another place the striking analogy between the Temple of Jupiter Belus, and the pyramids of Sakharah with the teocallis, or houses of the Mexican gods, which were both temples and tombs. See my Vues des Cordil. leres, et Monumens des peuples Indigenes de l'Amerique, p. 24–40. The following Table indicates the state of the missions in New California in 1802. In the enumeration of the Indians, the sexes are distinguished by initial letters m. and f. Under the head of horses, both those which are tame and those which run wild in the Savannahs are included: the number of the former only amounts to 2187. These details respecting the state of agriculture and civilization of the north-west coast of America, become particularly interesting, since the Congress of Washington have resolved to found a colony at the mouth of the river Columbia. (See Vol. I. p. 20. Vol. II. p. 882, 897.) The navigation from Monterey to the mouth of the Columbia is eight or ten days, and the new colonists may procure cows and mules from the missions of New California. * By mistake this note is referred to page 342, under the letter D. Villages or missions. Births. | Marriages. Deaths. do o Sheep. Horses.|Mules. San Diego - - 5952 702 1283 1559 6050 6000 || 900 66 - 737 m. 822 f. S. Luis R. de Francia || 568 118 104 532 1400 2700 226 18 - - 256 m. 276 f. San Juan Capistrano | 2137| 491 1083 1013 8710 15300 | 660 58 502 m. 511 f. San Gabriel - || 3397 746 2151 104.7 7500 |13045 [1430 100 532 m. 515 f. San Fernando - || 748 169 188 614. 900 2200 270 43 317 m. 297 f. San Buenaventura - 1669. 318 693 938 12450 | 5306 (2085 112 - 436 m. 502 f. Total carried over 14471. 2539 54.52 5703 37010 5571 397 44551 Villages or missions. Births. | Marriages. Deaths. ão) o Sheep. Horses. Mules. Brought OVer - 14471. 2539 5452 5703 37010 |44551 |5571 397 2780m.2923f. Santa Barbara - 2251 494 989 1093 2100 9082 627 58 521 m. 572 f. L. Puriss. Conception | 1582. 356 557 1028 2640 5400 || 326 || 44 457 m. 571 f. San Luis Obispo - 1735, 467 962 699 5100 || 5300 [1120 | 100 374 m. 325 f. San Miguel - - 729, 164 163 614 606 || 3099 || 284 28 309 m. 305 f. Soledad * - 887 218 401 563 1000 4000 || 520 | 19 296 m. 267 f. San Antonio de Padua 2730 641 | 1527 | 1052 2221 5530 | 635 | 37 568 m. 484 f. Total carried over 24385| 4879 10051 10752 50677 76962 |9083 683 |