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.

AN ELEVATED POSITION.
At the height of about two hundred and fifty feet, we
came upon a broad ledge of rock, around the edge of which
the ruins of an old stone wall were plainly discernible.
This wall seemed to have been used by the Zunis, not
only as a protection from an attacking party, but also as
a formidable engine of destruction; for by rolling portions
of it down the steep and precipitous bluff, it could not fail
to carry death and destruction in its path to the plain below.
We discovered no less than three of these ledges in the
course of our ascent, all bearing evidence of having, many
years previous, been similarly fortified; the stones, without
doubt, having been used to repel attacks.
After two hours of toil and perilous ascent, we reached
the top of the mesa, nearly twelve hundred feet above the
level of the plain beneath.
Once fairly on the plateau, what a glorious sight burst
upon our view!
To the northeast, and stretching far, far towards the south,
lay the magnificent range of the Sierra Madre which we had
so recently crossed, its regularly graduated peaks, seeming
to rise one above the other, reaching from the earth to the
very heavens, until we finally lost sight of them in the fleecy
clouds that drifted athwart the morning sky.
Far away to the southwest rose the symmetrical peaks of
the Mogo]lon range, the dark-green verdure of their sides
contrasting most beautifully with their snow-capped sum
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