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EL PASO 
Arriving at the place, I found some singular masses of 
sandstone standing detached from the adjacent hills, 
one of them bearing a curious resemblance to a man. 
My timid mule was much alarmed at the gigantic 
object which stood before it, trembling from head to 
foot. We therefore stopped a short distance from it 
and hitched our animals to an oak which hid from view 
the source of their terror. Around us stood these 
singular isolated rocks, some appearing like castles, 
others like single pedestals and columns. The one 
resembling a human figure, which is shown in the 
accompanying sketch, and which I christened the 
“ Giant of the Mimbres,” measured but three feet in 
its narrowest part near the ground ; while its upper 
Sandstone rocks. Eio Mimbres. 
portion luust have been at least twelve feet through, 
and its height about fifty. Others of equal height 
stood near. All are disintegrated near the earth, and 
