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of age and are cut in — not painted, as is still done by the Utes everywhere. 
They are found for a quarter of a mile along* the north wall of the canon, on the 
ranches of W. M. Maguire and F. T. Hudson, and consist of all manner of pic- 
tures, symbols, and hieroglyphics done by artists whose memory even tradition 
does not now preserve. An examination of the photographs made very closely 
with a reading lens suggested to me that the center third picture is intended 
to commemorate the first appearance of the Spanish discoverers in the sixteenth 
century, in the valley of the Del Norte; their encounter there with the naked 
natives of the country, and a battle between them and the Spanish cavalry, armed 
with lances, shields and swords, which the mounted figures are intended to repre- 
sent. 
The fact that these are carvings, and done upon such hard rock, invests- 
them with additional interest, as they are quite distinct from the carvings I saw 
in New Mexico and Arizona on soft sandstone. Though some of them are evi. 
dently of much greater antiquity than others, yet all are ancient, the Utes admit- 
ting them to have been old when their fathers conquered the country. 
VISIT TO AN ACOMA PUEBLO. 
F. P. BAKER. 
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We left McCarty's Station, on the Atlantic & Pacific R. R., in Arizona, at 
8:20 A. M. in a double wagon with a Mexican on horseback as a guide, for a 
visit to an Indian village on the top of a mountain about fifteen miles south of 
the road. I was told by an old Indian, that within his memory, until the past 
three months, it had never been visited by an American, although Mexicans often 
were there. 
The drive to the Indian village is through a country of great beauty and 
picturesque scenery, It was through great parks, with mountains of rocks from 
200 to 500 feet high on each side. Some of these peaks look like immense or- 
chards, pifions and small cedar trees representing fruit trees in a real orchard. 
The ground is rich, with deep soil, and only needs water to make it very pro- 
ductive. It is covered with pinons and cedar trees and huge cactuses, and also 
with bunches of grass that are said to be very nutritious. Quite a number of herds 
of sheep and horses, belonging to Indians, were seen on the divide. About 
twelve miles out we began to descend into the upper end of what seemed to be a 
canon. After going down a pretty steep decHvity we reached the bottom, where 
we found that the canon began to open out wider and wider into a beautiful park, 
with no trees, however, but a rich, deep soil, with bunches of grass thicker than 
any we had yet seen. This park contains many thousand acres of as beautiful 
prairie as one often sees. In it are numerous piles of rock, standing out by them- 
selves, ranging from a single rock, perhaps, with a circumference of fifty feet and 
