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CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
The Sierra Madre Mountains, where 
they live, are extremely picturesque in 
their rock formation, giving thousands of 
shapes I have never see elsewhere— 
battlements, towers, turrets, bastions, but¬ 
tresses and flying buttresses, great arches 
and architraves, while everything from a 
camel to a saddle can be descried in the 
many projecting forms. It is natural that 
in such formation—a curious blending of 
limestone pierced by more recent up¬ 
heavals of eruptive rock—many caves 
should be found, and also that the huge, 
irregular, granitic and gneissoid bowlders, 
left on the ground by the dissolving away 
of the softer limestone, should often lie 
so that their concavities could be taken 
advantage of by these earth-burrowing 
savages. 
The first cliff dwellers I saw were on 
