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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 211 be recommended for diseased lungs or shattered nerves. There are broad stretches of desert where the winds raise clouds of finest dust ; there are towering mountains and startling canyons and gloomy ravines. There are sections of the land which exude baleful malaria, and places black, for miles and miles, with solid waves of lava, recording the elemental confusion of fire and steam and exploding gases in days gone by. But, I am told by those who have explored the territory by pioneers of the early times that the sand and gravel beds of the Tucson valley are ideal grounds for consumptives and neurasthenics, or people of shattered nerves. From what I know of other lands and other climates, I believe the pioneers are right. |