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The First Europeans in Texas, 1528-156
Oviedo" mention, within a few days' journey after leaving the
Avavares a landmark as distinctive and exclusive as the four
rivers west of Mal-HIado- a chain of mountains very near the
coast--the first mountains seen on the' entire journey. Cabeza
de Vaca says that from what the Indians told them, they be-
believed that these mountains were within fifteen leagues of the
ocean.
As Judge Coopwood correctly says,"6
It is a well known fact that the first mountain within such dis-
tance of' the coast, going from the month of the Mississippi towards
Pinuco is the Pa noranes, south of the Rio Grande. . . . This
mountain has a. stream flowing southward along its west side, and
the length of the moun+ain is about fourteen leagues. . . . It
extends back from the coast sligtly west of north.. . . There
is no mountain within fifteen leagues of the gulf coast north of
the Rio Grande, and Pamorancs is the first so close south of it.
C abeza. de Vaca's turn to go inland was near a mountain
fifteen leagues from the coast in a prickly pear region, and if there
is no such place north of the Bravo, and the first one south of there
is P1amoranes, then at least it may be said that he was south of
that river when he made the turn to go inland."7
A few more hints from Judge Coopwood concerning the topog-
raphy of northern Tamaulipas will be helpful:
From the San Juan River over to the San Lorenzo, at the
foot of the Paroranes mountain is about five leagues. The San
Juan River flows to the northeast towards the Rio Grande, and
going across the Llano de Flores, it appears as if the stream on
the west of the Pamoranes mountain also flows in that direction;
but it flows southward and empties into the Rio Conchas, near
the southern end of the mountain. This little river is called San
Lorenzo.""
From Nogales, at the foot of the "Beginnings of the Sierra de
San Carlos," and south of Rio Conchas, continues Judge Coop-
wood,99
can be seen [ie is speaking figuratively] the southern end of the
Sierra Cde Paimoranes, standing within fifteen leagues of the gulf
"'Oviedo, TTI, p. 605.
"GCoopwood, Trrn QUARTERLY, ITT, 138.
" Coopwood, Tir: QUARTERLY, 11 r, 113-140.
"Coopwood, T E QUARTnnnLY, 11 , 138.
"Coopwood, THIE QUARTERLY, ] 11, 139.223
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