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.

308 EVIDENCES OF FORMER CIVILIZATION.
the ruins of a very ancient pueblo, constructed in a manner
which betokened a knowledge and skill in the art of building which we had hardly expected to find. Some of the
walls were still standing to the height of six or eight feet,
the masonry being in a state of perfect preservation. The
timbers were of cedar, and had the appearance of having
been hacked with sharp stones, rather than cut with tools,
a peculiarity belonging to all of the timber found in the
ruins in this country, particularly in those of the Casas
Grandes on the Gila. Fragments of handsomely painted
pottery and arrow-heads of obsidian are said to have been
found among these ruins.
The country here abounded in plants of the rarest and
most beautiful varieties, many of which were peculiar to this
portion alone.
Passing down the valley of E1 Moro, we entered that of
the Rio Pescado, upon whose banks stands the ancient
pueblo of Zuni. This whole valley has at some time been
cultivated by irrigation, though for many years the Zunis
have depended wholly upon the rains that fall in the spring
and summer.
In this vicinity we found the ruins of two pueblos, so
ancient that this people knew nothing concerning their
origin or inhabitants. Indeed, this whole extent of country
bears upon its face every evidence of having been at no
very remote period the abode of an immense population
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