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.

RUINS UPON EL MORO.
After admiring for a time the beautiful view around us,
we commenced our search for the ruins upon this aerial elevation. The top of the rock itself we found an almost flat
surface, upon which lofty pines and cedars were growing,
some of them centuries old. The ruins were discovered
after a little search, near the southern portion of the mesa;
and judging from their extent and general character, they
once formed the home of a large and industrious population.
There are two distinct sets of these ruins existing here,
standing about a quarter of a mnile from each other, and separated by a large fissure or canion in the rock itself. These
towns had evidently once been precisely alike, showing now
the same form, as well as construction and material used.
Their sides conform as nearly as possible to the four cardinal
points, and are in the form of a rectangle three hundred and
twenty feet in length, with two sets of rooms on three sides
of the rectangle, and were evidently three stories high.
The walls are faced with a hard, close-grained, gray stone,
varying in thickness from three to eight inches, and about
twelve inches in length; the back or filling being a kind of
rubble masonry, strongly cemented with mud mortar.
The general style of the masonry is similar to that found
in the ruins of the pueblo Pintado, although they lack much
of the finish and general beauty of detail ascribed to those
ruins. 1 should imagine that there could be hardly an existing doubt but that they were erected by the same people
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