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.

WONDERFUL AQUEDUCT.
for the night. Noon the next day found us among the
ruins of what had once been a city of not less than sixty
thousand inhabitants.
The ruins extended for miles in a northerly and southerly
direction, and consisted of old adobe houses, some of the
walls standing from four to six feet high, others showing a
line only a few inches above the earth. We also found the
ruins of massive churches. Over the main entrance of two
of these were sculptured the coat-of-arms of old Spain,
while the walls, still standing, measured sixty feet in
height. We found the ruins of what seemed to have been
a large cathedral or temple, corresponding in some degree
to the ruins of the Casas Grandes, found upon the Gila in
1694, as described by Father Kino. Also the ruins of a
stone aqueduct, of sufficient size to enable a person to
easily pass through it. The stones appeared to be laid in
a kind of cement, which had preserved its adhesive qualities wonderfully.
This aqueduct was undoubtedly used for bringing water
from the mountains, for we traced it nearly fourteen miles
towards a spot in the mountains that gave evidence of having once been a large spring. Near this place we found
several old shafts or openings in the side of the mountains,
plainly showing that at some early dclay they had been
extensively worked as mines.
Of the town we have no authentic history, save that it
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