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believed to have been direct 

 descendant:? of the Aztecs 

 Their architecture is anala- 

 gous in many respects to 

 that of the Aztecs of Mexico, 

 and there is nothing unnat- 

 ural in the supposition that 

 an offshot from the Aztecs, 

 during one of the periods of 

 migration of a moving na- 

 tion, stopped at places that 

 suited their convenience or 

 fancy and settled there. 



The most generally ac- 

 cepted theory as to why the 

 cliff dwellers selected such 

 rugged and inaccessible 

 places in which to live is 

 that they were constantly 

 harrassed by enemies, whose 

 persecutions forced them to 

 throw up these fortress-like 

 retreats. It would have 

 been a difficult matter to 

 have dislodged them from 

 the rear and they could eas- 

 ily have vanquished a whole 

 army coming from the op- 

 posite direction 



GiLI, 



Theodore N. 

 That person who 3 earns^j^^ g^^^^^j^j ^^ j,^g pr,s.,!,ncy of the American 

 for solitude should spend a Association through the death of Prof. E. D. Cope, 

 night in a cliff dwelling. An 

 uncanny fascination attaches- 



to the ghostly hours that drives sleep 

 away and brings the imagination into 

 active play. The night wind moaning 

 fretfully up and down the long sweep 

 of the canyon, seems to protest in the 



acr^'SS the gulf at a 



face, 



which he at oi;ce C( in iudes is an Aztec 

 god, siting up alofc there forever wait- 

 ing for ihe woild to die. 



C. N. St.ark. 



name o! a lone 



dead 



people against 

 the intrusion of strangers, and one 

 drops into perple.xed speculations as to 

 their origin, habits of life and final 

 dis-solution. Who were they, and why 

 did they live in the rocks of barren 

 canyons when there was so much na- 

 tural wealth and glory on top.' Hag- 

 gard superstitions come dancing along 

 through the blackness of tiie night to 

 thrust the night-mare-p "^ducing vis- 

 ages into a pleasant dreciin, and when 

 at last the sun's rays stream down into 

 the canyon the modern cliff dweller 

 rubs his eyes to find himself blinking 



'The Plant World" is a new month- 

 ly magazine to be piibli:-hed Oct. i by 

 W. X. Clute ol Hinghamtcn, N. Y. 

 With such an editorial staff as Prof. 

 V. H. Kiiowlton, Chas. L. Pollard, 

 Miss C. E. Cummings, Walter Hough 

 and others it is sure to find a hearty 

 welcome among plant lovers through- 

 out the world. We note its aim is to 

 present the facts in simple popular 

 style rather than technical. 



