between San Francisco and San Diego, and from the Coast Range to the
ocean. The nineteen missions had been so distributed over the vast
country, that the Indians scattered through it could everywhere be
reached; while the distance from mission to mission had, at the same
time, been so reduced that it was in no case too great to be easily
covered in a single day's journey. The fathers of each establishment
could thus hold frequent intercourse with their next neighbors, and
occasional travelers moving to and fro on business could from day to day
be certain of finding a place for refreshment and repose[7].



[6] The original adobe church was injured by earthquakes in 1806 and
1812. The present edifice was begun in 1815 and finished in 1820.

[7] The table given by the French traveler, De Mofras, in his
authoritative Exploration du Territoire de L'Oregon, les Californies,
etc., shows us that the distance between mission and mission nowhere
exceeded nighteen leagues, and that it was often very much less.



IX.



Santa Inez carries us for the first time over into the nineteenth
century, and its establishment may in a sense be regarded as marking the
term of the period of expansion in California mission history. A pause
of more than a decade ensued, during which no effort was made towards