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irrigating canals, which were the first evidences that 
the country had been settled and cultivated. But on 
reaching the plateau we found remains of buildings, 
all, however, in shapeless heaps. Not an erect wall 
could be seen. A little mound, conical or oblong, 
designated the character of the building: In many 
places I traced long lines of fallen walls, and in others 
depressions, from which the soil had been removed 
to make the adobe. On the plain, in every direction, 
we found an immense quantity of broken pottery, 
metate stones for grinding corn, and an occasional 
stone axe or hoe. The ground was strewn with 
broken pottery for miles. It was generally painted 
in a variety of geometric’ figures. The predominant 
colors were red, black, and white. The quality of the 
ware was very fine, more so than that made by the 
imos. I noticed too that much of it was painted on 
the inside, while at the present time all the pottery of 
the Indians and Mexicans is painted on the outside. 
As it was now growing very warm, we left the 
plateau and struck off for the Salinas, encamping 
beneath some tall cotton-woods, where we prepared 
and partook of a late breakfast. , 
Mr. Leroux, who had before come down the Sali- 
has, pointed out to me a mountain some six or eight 
miles off, at the base of which the river San Francisco 
or Verde’ enters from the north. Since we struck the 
Salinas, its course had been mostly east and west; and 
as far as it could be traced by the cotton-woods and 
verdure which mark its course, its direction indi- 
cated the same. We supposed ourselves now to be 
from thirty-five to forty miles its mouth. Look- 
