Mesa de Ojo de Agua (table-land of the spring).
Mesquite (a native shrub of the locust variety).
Milpitas (little patches of corn). This word is said to be the diminutive of milpa (a patch of maize or corn), but in that case must have referred to corn cultivated by Mexicans, since the California Indians raised no cultivated crops, but subsisted entirely on the natural products of the land. Milpitas is a village in Santa Clara County, which for some unexplained reason, has come to be used as a term of derision, the “jumping off place of creation.” It was probably the name of a land grant.
La Mirada (the view). See page [80].
Miramar (sea-view), is the name of a post town in San Diego County and of a summer resort near Santa Bárbara.
Miramontes (a surname). Candelario Miramontes, a native of Mexico, was the grantee of the Pilarcitos Rancho in ’41.
Misión Vieja, or La Paz (old mission or the peace). Land grant.
Misión Vieja de la Purísima (old mission of the Immaculate Conception).