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.

OLD RUINS.
upon one of her beautiful breasts, and she forthwith becanie
pregnant, and gave birth to a son, who immediately grew to
the stature of a man. This son was Montezuma, he who
had built the many towns, the ruins of which were scattered
throughout the country.
The old man informed me that he had visited many
of these ruins himself, and found them "very much large;"
but as Lieutenant Simpson, U. S. A., in his "Navajoe Expedition," has given so complete a description of them, I
prefer to use it, rather than the somewhat faulty and confused one given by the cacique.
Simpson describes a portion of these ruins as situated in
the Caion de Chaco, and in the valley of the Rio de Chelly,
two of the most southern tributaries of the Rio San Juan.
In all, there are more than thirty of these ruined pueblos, only six of which he gives a description of: Pintado,
Weje-gi, Una-Vida, Hungo-Pavie, Chettro-Kettle, and
Pein.asca-Blauca.
He found the ruins of the pueblo Pintado "forming one
structure, and built of tabular pieces of hard, fine-grained,
compact, gray sandstone, "- a material quite unknown in
the present architecture of New Mexico,- "to which age
and the atmosphere have imparted a reddish tint, the ]ayers,
or slabs, being not thicker than three inches, and sometimes
as thin as a fourth of an inch. The masonry discovers a
combination of science and art, which can only be referred
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