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TILLEES OF THE GROUND 



CHAP. 



look first at what he has done, and then try to 

 find out how he has done it. 



Let us go very far west to the State of Arizona, 

 which has been called " The Land that God Forgot." 

 It is the State which contains the wonderful 

 Canyon of Colorado and some perhaps even more 



FIG. 3. View in the American Desert. 



wonderful antiquities. On the sides of the great 

 cliffs there are remnants of the houses and the 

 palaces of a vanished people, a people of whom we 

 know almost nothing. Wonderful palaces they 

 are, almost like the buildings of ancient Egypt in 

 their evidences of infinite toil and patience. But 

 a great part of the country consists of dreary desert 

 wastes. How did that ancient people live while 



