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.

O UAHNOKAITIN.
upon our minds by the sight of old Zuni, as well as to learn
if the guide he furnished us the day before had performed
his duty in an acceptable manner.
Returning him many thanks for his kindness, and assuring
him of our admiration of the beauties of his country, as well
as surprise at the many strange sights we had witnessed
in it, the old man, in an ill-disguised tone of pride,
related many facts concerning it, which were indeed most
marvellous.
Among other things, he told us of a remarkable spring
situated in the Moquis country, about four days' journey to
the west of Zuni, which he said he had once visited.
This spring is named by the Zunis, "Ouahnokaitin." I have
since learned that it has been called by those Americans who
have visited it, "Jacob's Well."
The old man described it as a large hole in the plain,
shaped precisely like a funnel. It is six hundred feet in
diameter at the top, and one hundred and sixty feet deep.
At the bottom of this hole is a spring of remarkably pure
cold water, which bubbles up to the height of nearly four feet,
like a boiling spring,-an underground passage carrying off
the surplus water.
This spring is reached by a spiral staircase cut in the
rock and earth, which, though evidently of great antiquity,
is well-preserved, and still used by travellers.
By whom this marvellous staircase was constructed, ol
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