PHYSICAL GEOGEAPHY. xlvii 



and clsewherej I need not here make any further alhision 

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Between the Colorado Plateau — through which the Little 



lorado also cuts its way to join the main stream, like 



■ rand and Green rivers^ in a lofty-sided canon of its own — 



id the Moquis country (another very elevated tahle-land), 



I elongated basin extends from the Mogollon Mountains 



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;>rth- westward into Utah. As yariegated marls here come 

 J^ the surface, much of this wide trough has received the 



^^me of the ^^ Painted Desert.^' Thi^ough a great part of 



^is depression the Colorado Chiquito flows^ with open 



nks, through fertile bottom-land of considerable extent, 



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• ; -til it enters the Colorado Plateau. 



;;' To tlie north-west the country again rises step by step, mesa 



^*: on mesa ; and npon the edges of several of these latter may 

 fonnd those interesting fortified towns — the pueblos of the 

 )quis Indians. 



When Lieutenant Ives' party visited these regions, they 

 ^ ?d to explore the country to the north-east, but want of 

 ter and extreme barrenness compelled them to return, and 

 itinue their journey eastward by Fort Defiance into the 

 Q Grande valley, and thence across the plains. Dr. !N'ew- 

 Ty thus speaks of the Mocjuis country and the districts 

 fond : — 



" This mesa is, geologically and physically, the highest 

 lich we actually passed over on our route west of the 

 )cky Mountains. Kear Fort Defiance its summit has an 

 itude of nearly 8,000 feet. At the Moquis villages, the 

 -ata forming the table -lands begin to rise towards the 



! .st ; and near Fort Defiance, where the mesa country reaches 

 '000 feet, they plainly show the disturbing influence of the 

 est westerly axis of elevation of the Eocky Mountain system. 





