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 XXI.
HE valley of the Rio de
Zuni, with its lofty cliffs of
f black metamorphic rock,
- some of which, sepa rated from the great mass,
rise high in air like the
!h _ uge chimneys of -t vast
. manufacturing establishI jll/i" ment,- presents a most
'?l,ltf:Illtf~lf J///ll! t;:tIIJIl//!l!II[[!) ~ \ f!J sombre and gloomy appearance. Notwithstanding its forbidding aspect, no valley
is to be found between the waters of the Rio Grande and
the Pacific coast more fertile, or with climate better adapted
for purposes of agriculture, than is this in which is found
the pueblo of Zuni.
Here for the first time we caught sight of the town, distadt about four miles, situated upon an eminence near the
upper end of the valley, and which really presented, as
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