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.

THE SITE OF OLD ZUVI.
mits, that sparkled and glistened in the sunshine like great
white crystals.
Farther to the westward, the San Francisco peak stood
like a mighty giant vigilantly guarding the priceless treasures concealed within its bosom; while its aerial summit,
like a great white plume, seemed gracefully suspended in
the blue ether of heaven's bright dome, and offering a most
grateful relief to the eye whiile tracing the enormous
ravines, steep mesas, deep canons, volcanic peaks, arid
deserts, and overthrown rocks of the vast country lying to
the westward, and stretching into such boundless immensity of space that one utterly failed to comprehend its
magnitude, while it required but little stretch of the
imagination to fancy that beneath the far-distant horizon
could be seen the bright, sparkling waters of the blue
Pacific, as they gently kissed its sandy beach a thousand
miles away.
Occasionally a lovely green valley could be seen peeping
out from its yellowish-gray surroundings, like a beautiful
emerald in a setting of topaz, or resembling an oasis in the
white, sparkling sand of the desert.
Seemingly at our very feet lay the pueblo of Zuni, quietly
dozing in its quaint, strange solitude, its dark-brown
walls completely encircled by the sombre foliage of its magnificent peach orchards; while the river, looking like a
thread of silver, wound around through the valley, here
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