The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08

are found long after the struggle is over and. the finder. respecting the memory of the unknown, scoops a hole in the earth, lays the ghastly relic within, and piles up the only monument available in that wild re- zion.
 , As recently as Dec. F 1904. the bones of thirst victim were laid in one of these lonely, fiowerless, turtles graves on the plains of Yuha.
 ] The plain now lies nearly 100 feet below the level of the sea and the rocks of the plain and the bases of the mountains are washed and eroded in a wonderful manner. Mingling with the burnt stones and volcanic debris are rocks worn by the waves and shaped into hundreds of fantastic forms. There are many acres of these stone curiositfes and certain sections of the field seem devoted to certain shapes and figures.
 For instance, one passes. through 8 region which he at once names the cabbage patch, for it presents the ap- pearance of a field of those vegetables which have turned to stone. The way es have worn the rocks into round boulders about the size of the yege- table which they so much resemble, land have cut into the globes, laminat- ing them in perfect imitation of the leafy layers of the garden vegetable
 Another locality is devoted almost exclusively to dinner plates. Thou sands of rounded, thin dishes are scattered over the plain or are piled scores deep in singular piles, each piece shaped exactly like the crookery (which adorns our tables, and quite as thin and symmetrical. Another section of this truly wonder full region is given almost wholly to ldumb-bells. These vary in size from pieces weighing one or two pounds. up to those seemingly calculated for ex- lercising the muscles of a giant and weighing thirty or forty pounds each. In almost every instance these na- Itural dumbelis are well balanced, the balls at either end of the connecting piece being of the same size and weight
 There is in this plain all arsenal, d. ls0. While guns and swords and bayo- 1nets and powder were not there to be found, there are thousands of cannon balls varying in size form and 3 inch balls to those fit for the big 1S inch guns of modern warfare. And all are .of stone, all formed in Ifature's work shop.
 There are other objects tnnumerahle. There are stone roses, stone lilies, stone tulips, stone leaves, stone birds, lstone animals, stone quoits, stone or naments ill varied and unique. de- signs: stone canes--in fact almos everything conceivable in nature or art initiated ill stone on the plain of Yuha.
 In one portion of Yuha rise two hills, or small mountains. One might mistake them in the distance for an cient craters, but when he approaches the eminences. he discovers them to Dc monuments to an ancient life-the re. i cords of species now extinct. They are shell mountains, great beds of pre- historic hivalves which were left stranded when that ancient sea swept back from the region and left a dry
 and desolate land. #.5. ,l One of these mountains, the large one, is composed wholly of large rougf shells, much larger but less elogate
 than the shells of the modern oyster
 which in some respects they so mucl : resemble as to. lead to- the suspicion that they are the remains of the an. cestors of our much prized bivalve. The lesser hill is composed of tiny
 shells of a prehistoric type of brachio.
 poda. Like the larger shells, they ar,
 found, except on the surface, in al
 undisturbed state, both valves of, near
 ly every shell being found in position
 Although the mollusk dwellers oi these shells vanished several centuries Iago, so perfect are the shells one al. lmost expects, when he opens the val. ives of the shell, to find the living
 creature within.