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.

ESTUFAS.
whose property may have been deposited within the great
building for safe keeping. Although there appears to have
been less order in the tout ensemble of this great collection
of buildings than in those farther north, the number of small
apartments, the second stages and stories, the inner courts,
and nearly all the minor details, resemble those of the ruins
found in New Mexico and Arizona."
Who shall answer the question, when and by whom
were these wonderful structures built?
In a succeeding chapter I propose to give the reader a
synopsis of the many theories that have been advanced
concerning these ruins by our savans, that he may, in
connection with the facts here given, understand the treat
uncertainty that exists concerning the early settlement of
this marvellous country; as well as to convince him of the
truth of the statements made in previous chapters of this
work, that the barren and desolate wastes now existing
between the Rio Grande and the waters of the Pacific were
once inhabited by a race of people far superior in the arts
and in mechanical skill to any of the races that for the
past century have been found within its confines.
In all these ruins estufas are found to exist; they were
invariably built underground; were circular in form, with
neither doors nor windows, entrance always being had
through a small aperture in the roof. These estufas are of
different sizes, and from six to nine feet in the clear. They
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