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.

THE "HOUSES OF MONTEZUMA."
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next morning on the trip. Keeping along the bank of
the river, travelling through dense groves of mesquit and
cotton-wood, we made during the day about eighteen miles,
and camped at night in a beautiful grove on the banks of
the Gila.
The next morning, after following the course of the river
for several miles, we came upon the remains of a very large
acequia, which we traced for a long distance, through a
plain now overgrown by mesquit, but showing unmistakable evidences of having at some time been extensively
cultivated.
All over the plain we found hundreds of branch acequias,
together with marks of former habitations, broken potteryware, and stone metattes.
About noon we came in sight of three immense buildings, which our guide assured us were the "houses of
Montezuma"; and we could but gaze upon them with wonder and awe, for never before had we seen anything so
wonderful as these relics of an extinct race, of whom we
have no reliable history, and no knowledge save traditionary
legends.
The houses are situated on a slight eminence, and are
about three or four hundred feet apart. They are built of
a species of concrete, made of mud and gravel, while theo
timber, or rafters, used in their construction, are of cedar,
and well preserve].
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