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The Old Franciscan Missions Of California

CHAPTER IX
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There are a few portions of walls also, and a large part of the adobe wall around the garden remains.

The present owner of the orchard, in digging up some of the old olive trees, has found a number of interesting relics, stirrups, a gun-barrel, hollow iron cannon-balls, metates, etc.

These are all preserved and shown as "curios," together with beams from the church, and the old olive-mill.
By the side of the ruined church a newer and modern brick building now stands.

It destroys the picturesqueness of the old site, but it is engaged in a good work.

Father Ubach, the indefatigable parish priest of San Diego, who died a few years ago, and who was possessed of the spirit of the old padres, erected this building for the training of the Indian children of the region.


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