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.

CHAPTER X.
REST of two days at the
Apache Pass, and we stalrted
on our trip to Tucson, and
the silver mines in that vicin ~ S | y V rity. I do not propose to
/I: enter into the details of the
— L{/ ~ ~journey, for had it not been
tbetackerrom wenlivened by Jimmy's adven~f~,.e,zA?/g v'-y tures, it would have been
utterly devoid of incident or
interest. No more dreary and uninteresting country can be
found under the sun, than that lying between the Apache
Pass and Tucson.
The principal features of the landscape have a marked
similarity. The peaks of the Santa Rita and Cerro Colorado
Mountains loomed up in all their gloomy majesty on our
right, and the wonderful purple Be with which the distance clothed them, was a grateful relief to the brassy
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