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royal treasury. These rivers, however, must be explored in
order to ascertain whether they are navigable in all their course,
or whether they have any rapids or falls which may prevent
their navigation, as in the case of some of [the rivers of]
Louisiana, although they are navigated as far as possible with-
out danger. The Trinity and San Marcos rivers, which are the
longest and fullest, are navigable in flat-bottom boats or canoes;
there are no reefs in their course to obstruct [navigation].
I think that D [on] Gregorio de Salinas is the most appro-
priate person to carry out this project inasmuch as he has been
in that bay both by land and by sea, [and because] he has
explored the territory where the French established their set-
tlement, and the territory set forth in the description of other
[sites] either as good or more advantageous for fortifications
where the aforesaid [fortifications] may be constructed.
Likewise it would be advisable to construct another fortifi-
cation with a garrison, mission, and colony on the western
mouth of the Rio de la Palisada in order that we may be able
to navigate over it and over the Caudaches, which empties into
it, to trade and to transport supplies as far as the Caudaches,
confederates and neighbors of the Asinaiz. In this way, at the
same time that we succeed in garrisoning the Mexican coast,
we prevent foreigners from occupying its bays and thus drive
their trade into our dominions. Likewise [in this way] inter-
course with the wild tribes will be made easier. They may then
be conquered in order that we may civilize them and spread our
Gospel among them, for this is the main object of our rulers.
Likewise it is advisable to construct a fortification with a
garrison, a mission, and a colony on the coast, where the Bravo
del Norte River empties, a point which is on latitude 25 degrees
and - [sic] minutes, since this river drains all the territory
of the Kingdom of Le6n, Coahuila, and Presidio of San Juan,
and one branch of it' [drains] the mining settlements of Parral
and its neighboring [mining settlements] as far as Chiguagua;
from there its main channel [drains] all those included in the
kingdom of New Mexico, whence it took its name, since it has
its source in a lake on the 40th degree parallel, two or three
[degrees] above Santa F6, its capital. If any foreigners should
occupy the shores at its mouth, they could navigate it and
take out the silver from its mines through their trade in Texas,
'The Rio Conchos.236
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