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.

A FRESH STAR T.
peared in the distance, remarked, "It is a good thing the
mon lift as he did, fur I was detarmined to hev a sittlemint
wid him fur the disrespictful manner he spoke ter me in yisterday night."
An hour later we broke camp, and started once again upon
the road. After five days of tedious and uneventful
journeying we at last reached the high swell of land that
marks the descent to the valley of the Rio Bravo del
Norte.* Arriving upon the summit, we beheld spread
out at our very feet the beautiful and fertile valley of the
Bravo, with its broad and placid river rolling on and rolling ever, until it finds its final resting-platce in the bosom of
the vast Atlantic; its southerly course was plainly traceable
for a score or more of miles, by the magnificent growth of
verdure that skirted its banks, occasionally relieved by the
sight of some of the many towns or villages peeping out
from among the green foliage, until the who]s finally melted
away in the indistinguishable purple haze which veiled the
dim distance.
Way to the other side of the river rose the lofty peaks of
the Sierra Blanca, partially concealed by fleecy clouds,
while far to the north were to be seen the twin peaks of
the Santa Fe range, their tall white heads towering towards
heaven, as though striving to pierce the blue canopy which
* North of the 34th parallel N. Lat., the Rio Grande is called by all denizens
of New MIexico the Rio Bravo del Norte, or, Brave River of the North.
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