Note 1696 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
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Not to be confounded with the Casas Grandes, farther south in the Mexican province of Chihuahua, which is of a similar character. Cf. Bancroft, iv. 604 (with references); Short, ch. 7; Bartlett’s Personal Narrative, ii. 348. It was first described in Escudero’s Noticias de Chihuahua (1819); and again in 1842, in Album Mexicano, i. 372.