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.

WHAT IS FOUND THEREON.
elements, while it is most effectual]y concealed from careless eyes by the underbrush which has grown up around it.
It is simply this: "Don Joseph de Bazemzalles, 1526."
Lieutenant Simpson, in the report of his explorations
through this country in 1849, says: -
"I spent much time, and took great pains, to decipher
and interpret many inscriptions upon a very remarkal)le
rock, as well as to arrange them as nearly as possible in
their chronological order."
I purpose to give in this work, however, only a few of the
many score to be found thereon. The most ancient of all is
that of Bazemzalles, in 1526. Then come the following: -
"Passed by this place with dispatches, 16th day of April,
1606."
"J. Aparella, 1619."
"Governor and Captain General of the province of New
Mexico, for our Lord, the King, passed by this place on his
return from the pueblo of Zuni, on the 29th of July, of the
year 1620, and put them in peace at their petition, asking
the favor to become subjects of His Majesty; and anew they
gave obedience. All of which they did with free consent,
knowing it prudent, as well as very Christian."
"To so distinguished and gallant a soldier, indomitable
and famed, we love..." (The balance of this inscription
is so completely obliterated, that it was impossible to decipher it.)
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