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Show • lllUGIJ'f ANGEL ltlVEU. 87 Angel lli vor, with tho ~pccial purpose of socking timber, from which to ma.!:o oars. A couple 'of miles above, wo find a largo pine log, which has boon floated down from tho plateau, probably from an altitude of more than six thousand feet, but not many miles back. nit~ way, it must have passed over many cataracts and falls, for it bears scars in evidence of tho rough usage which it has received. 'I'he men ro1l it on s1<ids, and the work of t;a.wing oar~ is commenced. rrhis stream head~ away back, uudor a line of abrupt cliff~, that termi-nates the plateau, and tumbles down more than four thousaud feet in tho first milo or two of its course; then runs through a deep, narrow canon, until it reaches the river. Late in tho afternoon I return, and go up n little gulch, just above this creek, about two hundred yards from camp, and discover the ruins of two or three old houses, which were originally of stone, ]aid in mortar. Only the foundation~ are left, but irregular blocks, of which tho houses were con~:~ tructed, lie scattered about. In ono room I find an old mealing stone, deeply worn, as if it had been much used. A great deal of pottery is strewn around, and old trails, which in some places are deeply worn into the rocks, aro seen. It is ever a sotuce of wonder to us why these ancient people sought such inaccessible places for their homos. They wore, doubtless, an agricultural race, but there are no lands here, of any considerable extent, that they could have cultivated. rro the west. of Oraiby, one of the towns in the "Province of rrusayan," in Northern Arizona, the inhabitants have actually built little terraces along the face of the cliff, where a spring gushes out, and thus m~de their sites for gardens. It is possible that the ancient inhabitants of this place made their agricultural lands in tho same way. But why should they seek such spots' Surely, tho country was not so crowded with population as to demand the utilization of so barron a region. The only solution of the problem suggested is this: We know that, for a cfmtury or two after the settlement of Mexico, many expeditions wore sent into the country, now comprised iu Arizona and New Mexico, for tho purpose of bringing the town building people under the dominion of tho Spanish government. :Many of their villages were destroyed, and the inhabitants fled to regions at that |