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ains, more than any others in the United States, have 
enjoyed these conditions. And it is just here that we 
find the greatest anomaly in Indian history, the semi- 
civihzed tribes of the Pueblo, Zuni, Islita, Taos, Moquis, 
and other village Indians, who have made the greatest 
advances in the arts and in agriculture. The Pueblo 
Indians, however, know nothing of the people who 
built and occupied the cliff-houses. In some respects 
the many-storied stone and adobe houses of the modern 
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico resemble the ruins de- 
nominated cliff-buildings, but which I think point to 
a people that antedates the adobe-building race. Some 
Pueblo Indians state the cliff-buildings were made by 
Moctazuma's people emigrating from the north. 
The catacombs of Rome were from the beginning of 
the Christian era noted as dwellings and places for 
religious worship as well as for sepulchre. Wilson's 
cave, in Indiana, may be taken as one of the best ex- 
amples yet discovered of a cave which was probably 
occupied for religious worship in the United States.* 
^ Perhaps the most remarkable cave-temple is the one on the island 
of Elephanta, a small island of British India. Here is a very large cave- 
temple, elaborately decorated and cut in native rock near Bombay. It 
has long since been deserted by its priests, and is of unknovi^n antiquity. 
The entrance is 60 feet v^^ide and 18 feet high, supported by tvi^o grand 
columns. The breadth of the cave is 123 feet, with a depth about 
three times as great. The sides are excavated into compartments and 
filled with mythological sculptured figures. On the same island there 
are also two small cave-temples filled with Hindu statuary. 
The catacombs of Egypt, from their size, their splendid decorations, 
and the fact that they are the last resting-place of her long line of 
kings, have been justly considered the most remarkable in history. 
The entire chain of mountains in the vicinity of Thebes are mined and 
occupied as tombs. Those of Syracuse are larger and better preserved 
than those of Rome. Naples has her subterranean cave or catacomb 
