PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Iv 



on in Central and Soutliem Arizona; and neither the 



l^ttlers nor the military dispersed throughout the country 



3 able to contend succes>sfully against them. Is the country 



emam 



"Whoreyer we or om* parties have been we have found the 

 hole country strcAyn with the ruins of Tillages, irrigating 

 nals^ and pottery belonging to a populous race now extinct. 

 The Indians of the Moquis villages, which have been 

 ferred to ; the Indians of the Pima villages, who eidtivate 

 "ge tracts of land in the Eio Gila bottoms ; and the wander- 

 tribe, the Papagos, w^ho inhabit a large tract of country, 



D 



^Imost a desert, south of that river, arc the only civilised 

 ndians now to be found in Arizona, The fertile valleys of 

 hese regions once supported a very considerable population. 

 Lave the Apaches overpoAvered them, or have recent physical 



led to their disappearance ? Ther 



to be said in favoiu' of either hypo 

 the discussion of them until we haT 



will 



o 



made the acqu 



it ants. . 



■ Between the comparatively fertile belt of mountainous 

 3untry which we have been considering, and the Eio 

 'olorado, lies a district less elerated, and becoming very 



r 



ry and arid as we pass westward. It is, however, covered 

 lore or less with short ranges of bare, volcanic hills, rich in 

 linerals, gold and silver veins, which are attracting the 

 ttention of miners from California more and more every 

 ear. At last the Colorado Desert is itself reached. Thi 

 iver, having traversed the lofty plateau in almost a due 

 resterly coiu'se, takes a great bend to the south, and emerg- 

 ng from its cafioned table-lands into the lower country, 

 aeandcrs through broad and sultry valleys, which become 



