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 XVI.
p HE next morning at daylight we were
I / ready to start upon our journey,
_ expecting to reach the station of
the Overland Mail Company, called(
i'. the Soldier's Farewell, before night
~~~~~ ~overtook us.
~' {,.... -'As we rode out of the corral into
the beautiful bright sunshine, the view before us was a
lovely one indeed.
Away to the south lay the peaks of the great Sierra Madre
range, stretching far into the interior of Chihuahua. To
the southeast the graceful, conical peaks of the Florida
Mountains were to be seen, while, nearer, isolated ranges
and solitary Picatchos, rugged and bare, raised their heads
like huge rocks emerging from the quiet blue of the ocean.
To the east, more than a hundred miles distant, the
peaks of the Organos reared their huge basaltic coliinns,
which were distinctly visible in the clear morning light.
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