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.

WHAT HUMBOLDT SAYS.
piles of it scattered over the mesa, in proximity to these
ruins.
Of the many questions that this sight suggested, not one
could we answer in a manner satisfactory to ourselves.
What could have induced this people to have sought so
lofty and almost inaccessible a site for their town? How
did they procure water, and could they have depended
entirely upon the rain for their supply? From whence
came the large quantity of broken pottery with which the
ground is strewn in all directions, and for what purpose was
it thus broken? Who should answer these and many other
questions that suggested themselves?
Humboldt, in his celebrated "Essays on New Spain,"
locates the residence of the Aztecs during the twelfth century
as being "between the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh parallels north latitude, and the one hundred and ninth and
one hundred and twelfth degrees west longitude." If this
location is correct, all doubl)t as to the builders of these ruins
is at an end In any event they discover, not only in design
and material used, but also in their superior workmanship,
a style of architecture far beyond the capacity of the present inhabitants of New Mexico, either Indian or Mexican.
Gregg,, who was the first to call attention to these ruins,
ill his work on "The Commerce of the Prairies," refers to
the ruins of the Casas Grandes near the Gila, and to those
of the Cation de Chaco and Rio de Che]ly, as being the work
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