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 MONUMENTS.
flowing peacefully through green meadows, now concealed
from our view by the rugged and black walls of a cafion;
again losing itself in the waving corn-fields, or hiding
beneath the golden-tinted branches of the apricot trees, to
finally disappear in a deep gorge, dashing over its rocky
bed, until its white foam was lost to ubar view in the great
mass of lava that stretched far away to the southeast.
It was s: me time after we reached the summit of the mesa
before we could bring our minds to the examination and
contemplation of the objects more immediately around us,
so completely were we lost in admiration at the sight
of the wonderful and magnificent picture, painted by the
hand of the great Creator, that had thus suddenly and unexpectedly been revealed to our view.
A comprehensive survey of our surroundings discovered
the fact that we were upon a level plateau comprising
many acres, upon which was standing a magnificent grove
of cedars, surrounded by crumbling walls, evidently of
great antiquity, some portions of them eight and ten feet
in height, while in other places but a few inches were to be
discerned peeping out from the luxuriant vegetation, that
seemed striving to conceal from human ken all vestige of
the ancient ruins with which the top of the lofty summit was
covered.
Towering high upon the side of this mighty mesa, two singularly-formed columns of sandstone rose almost to the level
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