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.

EXTENT OF THE POPULATION.
and shining that they appeared like burnished tables, and so
polished that they shone like the earthenware of Puebla.
"Al the distance of an arbequebtis shot, twelve other
h,)uses are to be seen, half-fallen, having thick walls, and
,ll the ceilings burnt, except ill the lower room of one
house, which is of round timb)ers, smooth and not thick,
which appear to be of cedar or savin; and over these, sticks
of very equal size, and a cake of mortar, or hard clay,
making a roof or ceiling of great ingenuity.
"In the environs are to be seen many other ruins and heaps
of broken earth, which circumscribe it two leagues, with
much earthenware of plates and pots of fine clay, painted of
many colors, and which resemble ill form and texture the
jars of Guadalajara, in Spain.
"It may be inferred that the population was very large;
and that it was of one government, is shown by a canal
which comes from the river by the plain, running around
for the distance of three leagues, and inclosing the inhabitants in its area, being in breadth ten varas,* and about
four varas in depth, through which was, perhaps, directed
one-third the volume of the river, in such a manner that it
might serve for a defensive moat, as well as to supply the
wards with water, and irrigate the plantations in the
adjacencies."
This was the condition in which Mangi and Father Kino
* Twenty-seven feet.
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