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.

AN ELEVATED LAKE.
companied the station-keeper to a little pond or lake called
Stein's Peak Lake, about three miles from the station, on
the very top of the divide.
This little lake was scarcely a hundred and fifty feet in
breadth, and was fed by several large springs, while from
its sides ran two little streams, neither of them larger
than my arm, but clear, cool, (tlud sparkling. One of these
streams fell over a steep precipice, now pushing its way
through a rocky defile, or narrow gorge, and again flowing
gently and quietly through a small patch of forest, gailning strength and power as it descended to the plain below,
only to sink into the earth and reappear, after flowing
through its subterranean channel for many miles; to again
sink, and once more appear; until at last it lost itself in
the bed of the Gila, to finally make its way into the blue
waters of the mighty Pacific. Its companion stream toiled
on and on, until it too found an outlet, and thousands of
miles away it contributed its strength to swell the green
waters of the great Atlantic. Flowing from the same common source, thus were they finially separated by. vast
continent.
It would be exceedingly difficult to find words in which
to describe the peculiar characteristics of the scenery around
this miniature lake of Stein's Peak. It lay immediately
at the foot of a huge pile of cold, gray sandstone and
granite, promiscuously mixed with large quantities ot
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