FOUR REPORTS BY NEVE, 1777-1779

Abstract

I account to you that on my arrival at these new establishments, I found the mission of San Diego already rebuilt and the foundation of San Juan Capistrano concluded in the same place in which it was started, in both having guarded the implements of the censor ; covering them with earth. Also I found built the fort of San Francisco and adjacent the mission of the same name, the former immediately at the entrance of the port, and the second at a distance from the fort of five quarters of a league next to the lagoon of Our Lady of the Sorrows, one and another sites were occupied the 27 of June, and convenient to the mission there is plenty of water, firewood and stone for building with lands proportionable for cornfields, and with the advantage of a spring situated near at hand with water not difficult to draw out, which acquired, can succeed in benefiting with irrigation a large sown field.