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Show 158 BY PATH AND TRAIL. add that in the common use of adobe, for building mate rial, in the plain walls, rising to a height of many stories, in the architecture of their terraced structures, absence of doors in the lower stories, the ascent by external lad ders to the higher, their buildings were altogether unlike any found in Mexico, Yucatan or Central America. In the absence of arched ceilings, of overlapping blocks, of all architectural decorations, of idols, temples and build ings for religious rites, of burial mounds and mummies or human remains, rock inscriptions and miscellaneous relics, the monuments of the ' Zunis and Moquis present no analogies with the Mayas, Quiches or any known race of people now existing. Eeturning from this digression, let me continue my explorations. Here in this land of wonders is the Pet rified Forest, where are to be seen trunks of giant trees over ten feet in diameter and a hundred feet long, changed from wood into carnelian, precious jasper and banded agate. Here are hundreds of tons a riotous outpouring of Chalcedony, topaz, agate and onyx, pro tected from vandals by decree of congress. Here also is the Cohino Forest, through which one may ride for five days and find no water unless it be the rainy season. There are places here where the ground is covered with pure baking soda, which at times rises in a cloud of irri tating dust, and when driven by the wind excoriates the nostrils, throat, eyes and ears. There are depressions near the mouth of the Virgin Eiver, where slabs of salt, two or three feet thick and clear as lake ice, may be cut ; and mirages of deceiving bodies of water so realistic that even the old desert traveler, parched with thirst, is some times lured to his death. In this territory is Mogollon Mountain, whose sides |