20 PERKY, Terraced Cultivation and Irrigation. 



hundred and fifty miles along the eastern slope of the 

 Cordillera." 5 " 



The Maya and Nahara peoples of Honduras and 

 Mexico practised irrigation. 69 And the Aztecs had 

 irrigation works upon an immense scale. " 



Bancroft speaks of a huge stone aqueduct and 

 reservoir at Tezco Zinco, 61 and he states that Mexico 

 City had stone aqueducts and reservoirs. 6 - " The garden 

 at Iztapalapan was divided into four squares, each 

 traversed by shaded walks meandering among fruit trees, 

 blossoming hedges, and borders of sweet herbs. In the 

 centre of the garden was an immense reservoir, four 

 hundred paces square, and fed by navigable canals." 6:i 



Fewkes reports irrigation in the lake regions of the 

 Haitian provinces of Xaragua, Yaquino, Bainoa, and 

 Caiabo. 64 Authorities report traces of irrigation in Cuba. 65 

 Terraced irrigation is found in New Mexico, Western 

 Texas, Arizona, and in East California among the Zuni. m 



For example, in Verde Valley, Arizona, in Clear 

 Creek, stones are arranged so as to include rectangular 

 areas which are irrigated. 67 In the " Handbook of American 



5S Myths of Mexico and Peru." London, 1913, p. 273. 



30 Bancroft, "The Native Races of the Pacific States of North 

 America," London, 1875, II., pp. 349, 718. 



'•" Ibid, IV. , pp. 619, 632, 635, 668-70, 676. 



,;1 Ibid, II., p. 569. 



,;2 Ibid, II., p. 565. 



68 /bid, II., p. 575. 



,;i J. W. Fewkes, "The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighbouring 

 Islands." Smiths. Rep., XXV., 1903-4, p. 50. 



05 J bid, p. 51. 



6C F. H. Cushing, " Pueblo Pottery and Zuni culture-growth." Smiths. 

 Rep., 4, p. 477; Smiths. Rep., XXIII., 1901-2. XII., et seq.\ F. W. 

 Hodge, Prehistoric Irrigation in Aurina, America," Anthropologist, VI.; 

 F. Russell, Smiths. Rep., XXVI. , 1908, pp. 86 et seq. 



67 Fewkes, "Expedition to Arizona." 1895. Smiths. Rep., XVII., 

 1895-6, p. 538. C. Mindeleff. "Aboriginal remains in Verde Valley, 

 Arizona." Smiths. Rep., XIII., 1891-2, pp. 238, 244. 



