The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

DESOLATION.
against boulders of granite, and over stones and masses of
trap, that have been precipitated from the vast heights above
us, until at length we reach the point where we are to begin
the ascent.
Wearily toiling up the steep path, picking our way over
rocks and fissures, gullies and stones, all the while gaining
light, though losing strength, we at last reach the level of
the plain that we left in the morning, to find ourselves ill the
twilight, only four miles below the point where we began
the descent, having been more than ten hours in making the
journey.
Here, upon the very brink of this fearful chasm, we
throw ourselves upon the ground, declaring we can go no
farther. Here we must camp for the night. No vegetation,
no grass for our mules, no water, no food,- nothing but
desolation.
We are no nearer the enchanted castle than we were
before we made the passage of this frightful canion. The
pipes of that same grand old organ look down upon us.
The same butes, mesas, pillars, towers, and needles of
rock, with cafions, ravines, chasms, and fissures, surround
us that surrounded us in the morning. Then, we saw them
as the beams of the rising sun gilded their summits; now,
we see them towering up in the twilight, and assuming a
thousand fanciful and grotesque shapes that we had not
dreamed they possessed before.
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