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.

CHAPTER IV.
WO days later, and we again
reached the valley of the Me silla; and here let me give
the reader some idea of this
really beautiful place and its
inhabitants.
This valley is about one
hundred miles in length, and
from twenty to thirty miles in
twidth, the whole surface be
ing, easily irrigated by the waters of the Rio Grande. The
principal towns in the valley are Mesilln, Santa Barbara, Las
Cruces, and Dofia Ana, which together contain a population
of about three thousand souls. The real boundary on the
eastern side is the Sierra de los Organos, or Organ Mountains,
a range running from north to south about one hundred miles
inl length. These mountains are about three thousand feet
in height, and are composed chiefly of a light-gray granite.
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