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Show HrFEOGLYPHICS. 207 judge them to have been executed by a different class of persons than the Indians, who now inhabit these valleys and mountains-ages seem to have passed since they were done. When we take into consideration the compact nature of the blue granite and the depth of the engravings, years must have been spent in their execution. For what purpose were they made ? and by whom, and at what period of time ? It seems physically impossible that those I have mentioned as being thirty feet from the valley, could have been worked in the present position of the rocks. Some great convulsion of nature may have thrown them up as they now are. Some of the figures are as large as life, many of them about one-fourth size. On Red Creek canon, a mile further down the valley, there are the remains of a town, built of adobes ; ancient articles of housekeeping have been found there. These remains were remarked by the first " Mormons " who came in the valley. Indians never live in adobe houses; their lodges are always of umbrageous foliage, or skins of animals. As soon as our party were descried from the observatory at Parowan, the authorities of the town, and numbers of other gentlemen, came out to welcome the arrival of his excellency, Governor Young; and I never could have imagined the deep idolatry with which he is almost worshipped. There is no aristocracy or presuming upon position about the Governor; he is emphatically one of the people; the boys call him Brother Brigham, and the elders also call him Brother Brigham. They place implicit confidence in him, and if he were to say he wanted a mountain cut through, instantly every |
