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.

SALT LAKES.
pursue our explorations, or should we have trouble with
them?
Upon questioning our guide as to the probabilities of an
encounter, he shrugged his shoulders, and ominously shaking his head, gave us the usual philosophical reply of the
Mexican, "Quien 8abe?" or "Who knows?"
Half-way across this vast sandy plain two or three blue
specks wqre visible, which, our guide informed us, were salt
lakes; also, that it was from the shores of these lakes that the
Spaniards formerly procured their salt, and even the present
inhabitants of the Territory used it to a large extent. He
said, that in close proximity to these lakes was a very peculiar sandstone formation, well worth seeing; and, as all were
but a few miles distant from our direct route, we determined
to visit them. Bringing our glasses to bear upon that portion
of the plain pointed out l)y the guide, we saw what seemed to
us to be a large city, with its spires and domes and towers
glittering in the bright sunlight, and riva,lling in splendor
even the creations of the genii conjured by " Aladdin's
wonderful lamp.
But we must not linger longer admiring the wonderful
p)anoramna spread out before us, or we shall fail to reach
the wood and waater level before night-fall. We there
fore descend the thountain, and are once more upon the
plain.
Upon reaching a beautiful little stream that comes trick
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