4Speaking of the early confusion in the nomenclature of the East Texas
rivers, Pichardo concludes: "In view of this can we not say quot
capita
tot
sentie"
--or, more correctly, "quot
homines,
tot
sententiae,"
i.
e.,
as
many opinions as men. C. W. Hackett, ed., Pichardo's
Treatise
on
the
Limits
of
Louisiana
and
Texas,
I, 378-379, 397-402. A number of the old
Spanish maps may be found in Professor Hackett's work and in H. E.
Bolton's Texas
in
the
Middle
Eighteenth
Century.
Fray Puelles wrote a
