A WATCH-TOWER. 397 



watch-tower represented in the following engraving. 



It is twelve feet square, and has two doorways. 

 The interior is plain, and against the back wall is a 

 small altar, at which the guard might offer up pray- 

 ers for the preservation of the city. But no guard 

 sits in the watch-tower now; trees are growing 

 around it ; within the walls the city is desolate and 

 overgrown, and without is an unbroken forest. The 

 battlements, on which the proud Indian strode with 

 his bow and arrow, and plumes of feathers, are sur- 

 mounted by immense thorn bushes and overrun by 



34 



