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.

,1 AIAGNVIFlICEN' PROSPECT.
Immediately ill front of us lay the Burro rangle, while
high above their tops towered Cook's Peak, its jagg,e(l
sides clothed with the enchantment that distance always
lends. To the northeast the Mimbres range rose high in
the air, while farther north the Pino Alto, with their darkgreen pines, could be seen in bold relief against the snowclad peaks of the Mogollon range, far to the north of the
Gila, yet seemingly immediately behind them.
To the northwest the solitary peak of the San Francisco,
with its cornpacl'es, the Dos Cabasas, were plainly visible;
and far l)eyonld them Mount Graham, with its bald old sum.
mit strove to pierce the clouds, while at our very feet the
great plateau of the IWest, with its sand-fields sparkling in
the sunshine, stretched out as far as the eye could reich.
It was t miost beautiful picture that Nature had this
mornil;ng unrolled for our inspection; nor (lid we commence
our descent until we had thoroughly, and I hope tippreciatingly, enjoyed its beauties.
Ab)out ten o'clock we reached the level of the vast plateau,
which extends for nearly three degrees westward from the
Rio Grande, and is considered one of the best natural routes
for a r.ailroad ever seen, though a more barren and desolate
range of country does not exist on the American continent.
Imagine, if you can, an endless, parched-up waste, with
only an occasional patch of grass to be seen; then miles of
gray alkali plain, relieved by stretches of earth perfectly
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