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The crimson tinted Sierra Carlos skirted the river on the north 
side the: whole day, and its changing profiles formed subjects of 
study and amusement. Sometimes we could trace a Gothic steeple; 
then a horse; now an old woman’s face; and, again, a veritable 
steamboat; but this required tlie assistance of a light smoky cloud, — 
drifting to the east, over what represented the chimney stack. 
Wherever the river abraded its banks, was seen, in horizontal 
strata, a yellowish argillaceous limestone. 
October 30.—Mount Turnbull, terminating in a sharp cone, had 
been in view down the valley of the river for three days. To-da 
about three o’clock, p. m., we turned its base forming the northern 
terminus of the same chain, in which is Mt. Graham : 
‘Half a mile from our camp of last night was another very large 
‘ruin Which appeared, as well as I could judge, (my view being ob- 
structed by the thick growth of mezquite,) to have been the abode 
of five or ten thousand souls. The outline of the buildings andthe | 
pottery presented né essential difference from those already de- 
scribed. But about eleven miles from the camp, on a knoll, over= 
looked in a measure by a tongue of land, I found the trace of a 
solitary house, somewhat resembling that of a field wotk en cremal- 
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liére. The enclosure was complete, and the faces varied from 
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ten to thirty feet. The ac ying cut will give a more 
accurate idea than words. ; 
wild hogs, and this morning we started on their trail, but. 
flesh had now become so precious that we could not afford to fol- — 
~ about 100. pounds, and their color  epsaget OS ay pepper and salt. 
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