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 CEREUS GRAN~DES.
volcalic reck, covered with a
coating of bright and shining
lava-form of every color, from
light purple to deep red and..;
sombre black. The edges of
these rocks were sharply defined, __
and of the most fantastic shapes -
which the imagination could =
conceive. Scattered here and -
there, growing apparently with -
out any soil, rose to the height
of forty or fifty feet grooved -
columns of the Cereus grandes, -
or monumental cactus, as it isl --
sometimes called. Interspersed _
with these were the brilliant ~!
green leaves of the prickly-pear,
or the occasional gaudy blossom
of the maguey, or the Spanish l;
bayonet, with its bristling
points, all of which, together ~: ~
with the clear blue sky above ~1 ~
its. and the cold white summit of -
the Peak at our left, were most _i,
faithfully reflected in the waters
of the little lake which lay so
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CEREUS GRANDES.
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