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age course during periods of storm, the soft sandstone has become 

 so much eroded that they have apparent!}' lost their former shape. 

 The cliff at this point was readily surmounted with the aid of 

 two sections of the ladder, a rope being carried over the slope 

 above and secured to a large bowlder in the corner of a conve- 

 nient terrace some 60 feet below the summit. 



This was the point which I reached during the 1895 visit. At 

 that time I spent several minutes on this ledge, making diligent 



FIG. I— ENCHANTED MESA FROM THE SOUTH 



search on the walls of the cove for evidences of pictographs, but 

 finding none. This does not signify that none ever existed, for 

 both here and elsewhere about the cliffs great blocks of stone 

 have fallen away so recentl}' that their edges have not yet had 

 time to round by erosion, and the now exposed faces of their 

 former abiding places on the cliff wall are yet unstained by 

 weathering. (See Fig. 1.) 



