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position of this A^alley afford opportunity for the cultivation of 

 potatoes, garden vegetables and grains, while the adjoining 

 slopes and highlands furnish admirable pasturage. When 

 viewed from the trail perched high above the village, the 

 deeply trenched canyon along which a swift stream winds its 

 way through a tangle of shrubs, the abrupt slopes of brown 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 2. View of the village of Yauriska, looking north. 



sandstone dotted with hardy plants, and the graceful outlines 

 of the mountains beyond, compose an attractive landscape (fig. 

 2). The masses of color presented by field and ledge and 

 native vegetation are pleasantly modified by scattering Euca- 

 lypti and a profusion of flowers along the walls and in the 

 better-kept gardens. The village itself — about one hundred, 

 tile-roofed, mud-walled houses, arranged along a cobble-paved 



