Bernal

In the decree of confirmation in this case the land confirmed is described as follows: Beginning at a point a short distance south of the solar or house lot of said rancho, and near a spring, and running thence in an easterly direction to a pile of stones in the portazuelo, or pass of the laguna, being a point on the boundary of a tract of land known by the name of the “Laguna Seca”; thence in a northerly direction, and with the line of the last mentioned rancho, until it intersects the Coyote creek; thence westerly, with the meanders of the Coyote creek to a point at or near the base of a hill known by the name of “Las Lagrimas,” where a live oak tree was marked as a corner; thence southerly, crossing the road “from Monterey by an oak tree, and through a dry rulare, to a tree on the top of a mountain, marked as a . orner; thence easterly, along the range of hills on the south side of the tract, to th? pcint of beginning, — containing one square league of land, more or less, according to the terms of the grant, and excluding a small portion of land which was occupied by and adjudged to belong to Juan Alvirez, the owner of the adjoining rancho,— reference fora more particular…