The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-11
REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES OF NEW
MEXICO

Among the valuable publications of the IT, s
Senate at the last session is Lieut.. Abert's Re-
port of his typographical examination of New
Mexico Lieut.. A. explored the country in the
years 1916 and al with detachment of the To,
biographical Corps by order of the government
and his report reveals the existence of the rs.
mains of similar civilized race that has disao.
peared. In the language of a distinguished anti
quarry, it enables US fully to identity the ssKipo.
dom of Cibola," visited by Castenada, the cbron.
icler of Coronado's Expedition, sent northward nv
Viceroy Mendoza in 154O-'42.
Some ofthe towns visited by Lieut.. Albert sbu
bear the names by which thew were known
the sixteenth century, and the inhabitants in
manners, mode OF building, ect, have UNDERGONE
scarcely perceptbe change from that period
The town OF Acoma, visited by Lieut.. Ahart
probably dates back beyond the conquest and
was one OF the "seven cities' of Casterada -
Is situated upon rock, inaccessible EXCEPT by \
narrow, and, in part, artificial passage. The
buildings are three and four stories high with no
entrances from the ground The stairs recede so
as 10 leave terraces In front, which are reached
by movable ladders. The openings into the in
terror are through the roof la case OF attack the
ladders are Withdrawn, and buildings, fifty or
"a " "hiNh SOihPOSG DUCK or square.
medlately converted into an almost impregnable
fortress. One of the ediices, the s.Pueblo de
lacs, has successfully resisted all the attacks Of
the wild Indians and the Spaniards 1t is seven
stories high. 1t was reduced by the American
forces, January, IS47, by long and bloody
siege.
The ruins OF ancient buildings, and the traces Of
aremote population, are numerous upon the Riv
er ella They differ III many respects from those
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known, and has been supposed to lend sanction
to the traditionary migrations of the Aztecs by
whom 1t has been conjectured they were built =
those which are standing composed OF clav
and are several stories ia height
Upon the ella, Lieut. Emory found two singu.
lar semi civilized aboriginal tribes They are
the Pimos and Coco Maricopas. They cultivate
the soil, irrigating it by means OF numerous ca
nails, and live upon the most friendly terms with
each other. They are honest, industrious, brave.
but peaceabe, and in all respects afford strik
ing contrast to the rowing Apaches who occupv
the country to the Northeastward, Lieut.. Emory
heard oil similar tribes in the territory above the
CHA, between the Pimos and the Navaies, which
are probable the same with the Moqui of Hum
boldt. One OF these, the Soones, are represep.
ted to be further advanced in civilization than the
Plmos. 1t is also said that they reside in caverps
cut III the rocks-suggcsting at once the "seven
nv" winch the ALtecs Claimed that
their ancestors migrated.
Although the remains found on the ella pos
sessed few features in common with the struc.
lures erected by the Mexicans and are certainly
not beyond the capabilities OF the plesent or an.
cient Indians OF New Mexico, they still attest the
former existence here of population diaerino
from the Pines at leest in the construction Of
their edihces, and which may have migrated
southwark or disappeared under the attacks of
hostile DelphbOrS Thew
firm the Aztec tradition, and invest the unknovp
nations to the northward with new interest.
knowledge OF the true character of these nations
is a great desideratum