This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... VALLEY. 219 The form of the Cercus giganteus is that of fluted and vertebrated columns, with several arms rising in a parallel manner with the trunk. We must also notice the mountain sheep, the horns of which are of a prodigious size, and their wool exceedingly fine and silky. It is stated that when this quadruped is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... VALLEY. 219 The form of the Cercus giganteus is that of fluted and vertebrated columns, with several arms rising in a parallel manner with the trunk. We must also notice the mountain sheep, the horns of which are of a prodigious size, and their wool exceedingly fine and silky. It is stated that when this quadruped is pursued by the hunters it throws itself from the top of a precipice in a peculiar way, so as to fall on its horns, and then gets up without having received the slightest hurt. In all probability it was with the wool of this species of sheep that the Totonteas wove the beautiful stuffs of which the Indians of the Gila spoke to Father Marcos de Nica. Metamorphic rocks, either volcanic or of red sandstone, with the most ludicrous appearance, are piled up on each side of the William as far as the Rio Santa Maria, where the valley changes its direction from north to south, and then winding, goes from east to west. Although you have only got a glimpse of the Rio Santa Maria, you must nevertheless leave it behind you, and continue to skirt along the river unto its embouchure in the Colorado, situated at 114 W. long., and 34 15' N. lat. According to an ancient tradition the constructors of the pueblos came from the north-west to the banks of the William; there they divided into two bands, one of which went by the San Juan and the Cafion of Chelly towards the centre of New Mexico, and the other established itself near the Rio Gila, from whence it was able to extend as far as Mexico. In this part of its course the William winds through the mountains by a gap that is opened through a triple bed of greenstone, granite, and white quartz, containing an argentiferous gallery. This gorge is frequented by the Indians of the Colorado, so that you may ofte...
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Very good. 2 volumes. Illustrated with 58 colored or tinted lithographic plates, plus 3 plates of Indian music, and a large folding map (quite wrinkled and worn at edges with repairs on verso; plates very lightly foxed). 445; 465pp. Thick 8vos, modern blue cloth with leather spine labels (slightly worn with no loss of lettering). London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Very good. Howes D-410. Graff 1121. Wagner-Camp 356: 1. Field 444.