John M - 3-8-2005 at 08:14 PM
From this word description quoted from a recently acquired book:
"A small building of modern construction now contains the altar, crude images of the saints which resemble nothing more than grotesquel large wooden
dolls, and ancient vestments, such as have escaped destruction. Two bells, each about 20 inches in height, are hung upon a T-shaped post made from the
knees and other timbers of a wrecked vessel. One of these bells bears the date of 1784 and the other 1800."
More clues to follow in a day or so.
Hint - the book from which this passage comes was written before 1900.
John M.
David K - 3-8-2005 at 08:22 PM
John, purely a guess, based on my past readings... I have not now opened any of my books... Is it El Rosario?
I'll post a picture if....
John M - 3-8-2005 at 08:27 PM
someone explains how.
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David K - 3-8-2005 at 09:51 PM
From a web page or from your PC's files?
From a web page, get the photo's URL by using the right click on your mouse, copy, and then paste it into the pop up created when you click on the
photo post icon, above where you type a message.
From your PC's files, click on Browse (below the type box) and find the photo. It does have to be under 50 KB to post.
Photo that accompanies the story
John M - 3-9-2005 at 06:24 AM
Yes, David is correct. Here is the caption for the attached photograph. "View at El Rosario. Looking westward across the valley. Mesa sandstone in the
distance."
Be patient for the photo to load, I guess it's near the maximum kbs.
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David K - 3-9-2005 at 08:33 AM
Thank you John.
What is the book's name & author?
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Here is John M. (in center) with other Desert Explorers at Viva Baja #3 (Feb. 2002)...
Book title
John M - 3-9-2005 at 01:54 PM
Geology and Natural History of Lower California by George P. Merrill. (1895)
I have the June 1975 facsimile edition - it also contains the description of a wagon trip from San Quentin to El Rosario and then basically eastward
with stops to visit at San Juan de Dios to their furthest east point a place they called Tule Arroyo - the author says is within 15 miles of the Gulf.
The return was via what might have been El Marmol, San Fernando Mission and on to El Rosario.
This is a neat little book with information new to me.
John M.
David K - 3-9-2005 at 06:27 PM
Tule Wash (Arroyo) was the old name for Arroyo el Volcan...