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32_128 Botanized over the mesa towards San Diego River, went down into Mission Valley and across the river to the old Mission San Diego of which ?ruins? a substantial portion of the front, only, remains. The extensiveness of the old foundations show[s] still something of the size of the establishment on the little hill above the river bench or bottom. On the river bottom are still to be seen, in spite of periodical high floods, old adobe foundation walls that indicate the further extent of the Mission village. Most interesting is the old Olive orchard. The trees are over a century old and look it. They are about 20 to 25 feet high, roughly judged. No care is given the ruins. Two of the |
32_129 April 4, 1916 Apartments next south of the Church front are in tolerable preservation, having been covered in more recent years with a shingle roof; but even these rooms are used as a winter shelter for cattle. The early Franciscans had a secret tunnel running from the church down to the first bench of the river. Its lower end may still be seen. By this tunnel some of the friars made their escape at the time of one of the earliest and severest Indian attacks. There are some relics of the Mission kept in the Indian schoolhouse. In particular a large and not bad painting of a saint whose name I forget. The picture shows where Indian arrows passed thru the canvas; it dates back to the earliest days of the Mission San Diego and was doubtless brought from Old Spain. |
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