VII. An extract of a memoir, concerning the discovery of a passage by land to California; with a map and description of that Country. Presented to the Royal Council of Guadalaxara in Mexico, by Francis Maria Picolo. Taken from the letters of the missionary Jesuits, printed at Paris.

My Lord, In Obedience to the Orders you some Days ago honoured me with, I shall give you an Exact and Faithful Account of the Discoveries and Settlements, that Father de Salvatierra and my self have made in California , for these five Years Past, that we have been in this large Country.