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Show 184 . BY PATH AND TEAIL. spearheads, arrow tips of jasper and obsidian and beau tiful pottery was unearthed. These were buried with the dead, whose bones had wasted to dust many years be fore the white vandals had rifled the graves. The pre historic buildings are now a confused mass of sun- dried brick and sandstone, but when Mulhausen was here sixty years ago, the divisionary lines of 300 houses or rooms-were traceable, and a few feet of a wall standing. When the exploring party for the Pacific railroad passed here in 1853, it was said that traces of unique pictographs or symbolic writings yet remained on the face of a neigh boring cliff. A little to the west of Chalcedony Park are the remains of another abandoned village. A few scat tered huts are still nearly intact, unique, ghost- like, alone, unlike anything found elsewhere upon the earth. The material entering into their construction is like unto that of which the New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse is built, for " the building of the walls thereof are of jasper, and the foundations adorned with all manner of precious stones." The ancient builders selected silicified logs of uniform size for their dwellings, and, with adobe and precious chips of Chalcedony, chinked the valuable timbers. Never did prince or millionaire choose more beautiful or more imperishable material for even a single room of his palace than the trunks of these trees which stood erect ages before the first man saw the setting sun. When I entered the wonderful forest and ascended an elevation from which I could command my surround ings, I experienced a feeling of disappointment. From magazine articles and letters of travelers, I was led to believe that this mystic region was a dream of scenic joy. I confess I was keyed up too high by these descrip- |