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between the edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian. The stream flows through a gorge, 
upon one side of which a shelving sandstone rock forms a sort of cave. The roof is covered 
with paintings, some evidently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints, 
animals, and symmetrical lines. Fac-similes of a portion of them may be found in plates 28, 
29, and 30. 
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Pictographs at Rocky Dell creek. 
e Fig. lis much defaced, and appears to be very old. It occupies a conspicuous part of the 
rock. The figure is ckt. and to the head are appended circles, as if to represent enormous 
ears. In one hand i is a ee club, and in the other a st e The colors used are red, black, 
Ze white. | 
Fig. 2 is of the same period; a representation of some superior being, with wings, perhaps ` 
. to denote spirituality, and a hand, signifying that he is the creator of the sun, which appears 
` issuing from it. He stands "pon the back of an alligator, but the latter appas to be of later 
origin. D 
The colors of No. 3* are dim, and many of the details obliterated, giving room for Imagina- Se 
tion to fill up the details to her own satisfaction. This series, more than the e see] 
T^ ow a chain of historical events, being embraced by serpentine lines. First 
č The sketches here referred to have been lost. The relative po ier chang: 
