. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . PICTOGKAPHS. 37 between the edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian. The stream flows through a gorge,upon one side of which a shelving sandstone rock forms a sort of cave. The roof is coveredwith paintings, some evidently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints,animals, and symmetrical lines. Fac-similes of a portion of them may be found in plates 28,29, and 30. Plate Pictographs at Rocky Dell crook. Fig. 1
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . PICTOGKAPHS. 37 between the edge of the Llano Estacado and the Canadian. The stream flows through a gorge,upon one side of which a shelving sandstone rock forms a sort of cave. The roof is coveredwith paintings, some evidently ancient, and beneath are innumerable carvings of footprints,animals, and symmetrical lines. Fac-similes of a portion of them may be found in plates 28,29, and 30. Plate Pictographs at Rocky Dell crook. Fig. 1 is much defaced, and appears to be very old. It occupies a conspicuous part of therock. The figure is naked, and to the head are appended circles, as if to represent enormousears. In one hand is a huge club, and in the other a sword. The colors used are red, black,and white. Fig. 2 is of the same period; a representation of some superior being, with wings, perhapsto denote spirituality, and a hand, signifying that he is the creator of the sun, which appearsissuing from it. He stands upon the back of an alligator, but the latter appears to be of laterorigin. The colors of No. 3* are dim, and many of the details obliterated, giving room for Imagina-tion to fill up the details to her own satisfaction. This series, more than the others, seems torepresent a chain of historical events, being embraced by serpentine lines. First is a rudes* The sketches here referred to have heen lost. The relative positions of others are slightly changed, 38 PICTOGRAPE
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