Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-14

and marvellous scale. Here are great watcl towers, built undoubtedly to resist assault clearly demonstrating the theory that the cliff dWcllerS were d warlike race. Moth ing wilder, more desolatC and impressive can be imagined than these stony voice. from an unread past.
 In the Navajo canyon, Colorado ant also i'll New Mexico are mines of these an cient peoples. Many of the wise men who have studied these mines profess to find striking analogiCs with the structures around Lake Tilicica and go so far as tC claim that there is no incongrllity i'll the theory that the cliff dwellings of the Man. cos canyon were built by the same prehis toric white race that reared the pyramids One opinion advanced is that there was Il period of py yramid building just as there was one of cathedral building. Pyramids were built in Egypt Peru and Mexico, The Colorado and New Mexico cliff dwell ings may have been copied after these structures. It is however conceded that savagcs have dwelt within them, whoever constructed them.
 In the Sandal house, cliff dwelling of 36 rooms were found innumprablc wooden sandals left there by the inhabitants when they departed for unknown regions It gives you queer sensation to go pokina about in dark corners of these weird dwcll- ings and uncarthing cups, bowls and jars from which possibly people of Pharaoh $ time drank. or shoes which may have GOV cred the tiny feet of some new world maid on who lived during Noah's day.
 The most interesting discovery in these dwellings of which I heard was that made by Captain w. A. Jacksoni one of the pio- necr miners of Colorado. He is u grzzlcd, picturesque veteran, as full of delightful stories as an egg is of meat. This was the story told me as we rode from Dolores to MancoS!
 "I believe the Mesa dwcllcrs to have been ancestors of thc Pueblo Indians: The remains of their pottery and architecture are the same In the La Nilata range l once found kiln iii which these Mcs;i dwcllcrs baked their pottery. But the most interesting discovery I ever made was in the Mogollon range on the Gila river There is peak there an extinct volcano, from whose crater lava had pour cd 600 feet west into the canyon. Our party followed the course of thi@lava and found where it had been damned up like driftwood. Then a second flow of lava had rushed down and broken this drift wood and dashed the lava high up the walls of the canyon Looking up we saw the roof, then the doors and windows, Of an ancient cliff dwelling. With difficulty we sealed the side of the canyon and cn- tered this dwelling. A convex surface oi lava and obsidian glass was formed over an object of some sort. With difficulty we lifted it back, and there was the perfect skeleton of a human being. So, if some scientist could tell from the state of the crater of that extinct volcano when was its last eruption, we might discover when these dwellings were inhabited, for in all probability this creature was living there, engaged perhaps in his daily voca- tion, when this deluge of lava dashed up from the canyon and entombed him alive. |"
 That the valley of the Gila was once in- habited by mighty race is conclusively shown by the remains of irrigating canals, which may be seen there, whose ago is only a matter of conjecture. And so by many indubitable signs has the great west shown us that the, new world is old, old beyond question: old beyond answer.
 EDITH SESSIONS TUPPE~