30s r/i'Alinririlii i iiiilnil'ixt . N.n.iiiliir. IMU 
tlu- licnd-watcr cict'lvs »»f the l»i(> L:i Sciltt'tii. whoso waters, 
«'iiii(tyiii«.f into tlicliio Tooiiui. niid tliencc iiitotlic IJio Miitapilpa, 
t'litci' tile ('aiililu'aii sea. Near the cciiti'c of this \alU'V a canon 
Ix'iiiiis al)rii|»t ly and deepens as we follow it for aliont tliree miles 
to the ed<>». of the mesa, where it attains a depth of ahout 225 
feet. 'I'he canon is ahout 4<l<l feet wide at top and sixty lo sev- 
enty-live fi'ct acioss its llooi'. The waters of a snnill creek, named 
Chomeha'" which lises at the hea<l of the valley, rusli down 
over a f\'w small casca(U's and falls, neai- the almost i)reoipitoiis 
head of the canon, to two vertical falls of considerable hight. 
\\ till' first of these, the water drops aliout forty feet into a basin 
|)eihaps ten feet in dej)th and a hundred and fifty in lireadth. 
formed in a flat i:raiiitic or uiieissie ledge, and from this l»asin, 
throuuh a channel aliout lifty feet lone-, a foot wi(U'. and three 
inches deei). to the eds;e of the ledge, where it makes the second 
fall. oi- one of about 1 (»0 feet, into a basin in the metamor})hie 
l1oor of the canon. Flowing thence southeastwardly. the stream 
descends rapidly, often over falls and cascades, through the nar- 
row rock-walle<l canon, for al»out two miles, to a valley alongside 
of the Hio Seibt'ta. Along the sides of this canon are many 
strange and lieautiful forms of smooth-faced rocks, some pro- 
jecting their oval surfaces for a few feet at right angles to the 
face of the canon and exti'uding for several yards j)arallel witli 
its dii-ection. others carved out into long intaglios. Above the 
falls and during the dry season, the stream does not exceed two 
inches in dejjth by fifteen feet in width, and its hydrographie 
liasin floes not embrace ovei' five sipiare miles. In that part of 
the valley aic found many ntdntonin^tl masses of granite and 
>tiiate(l and polishc(l masses and large flat loose rocks striated 
fi'om one and a half to two inches (U'cp in lines parallel with the 
How of the ci'cek. 
Xeai- the termination of the cafion in the lower or river valley, 
and extending across the valley to the Kio Si'ibeta. are several 
mounds and hills composed, so far as examineil. of nnstratifled 
deposits of clays and sands containing rough and smooth-edged, 
larg*' and >niall I'ocks and pebbles, indiscriminately mingled. 
* Chomeha, as I learned from some old Indians of the Tnrcos and 
Amerrique tribes, is the name of u iroddess of the aboriiiines, now 
sometimes invoked hy the very small remnant of these once large Indian 
tril)es. 
