Letters of an Irish Catholic layman : being an examination of the present state of Irish affairs in relation to the Irish Church and the Holy See : showing that the Home Rule, Land and Education Movements ..are in perfect conformity with natural justice and Catholic principles . ingenuityand foresight. Everything is indicative of their having beenin constant danger from the depredations and invasion of some,to us unknown, enemies, as they built no stairs, cut no steps,simply hollowed out slight foot and hand holds, by means ofwhich and ladders they ascended and descended to their dwell-ings. T
Letters of an Irish Catholic layman : being an examination of the present state of Irish affairs in relation to the Irish Church and the Holy See : showing that the Home Rule, Land and Education Movements ..are in perfect conformity with natural justice and Catholic principles . ingenuityand foresight. Everything is indicative of their having beenin constant danger from the depredations and invasion of some,to us unknown, enemies, as they built no stairs, cut no steps,simply hollowed out slight foot and hand holds, by means ofwhich and ladders they ascended and descended to their dwell-ings. The walls were strongly built of stones, cementedtogether, and in some cases balconies made of logs and coveredwith bark and adobe projected over the cliffs. The doors wereodd T shaped openings so built to admit easy entrance tothe large carrying paniers in which all their piovisions werebrought to their homes. The living rooms are in most casescircular, with a low stone seat running about tlie sides, fittedwith hollowed-out stone closets, and having fire-places in thecenter. Under separate ledges of rock are small, unlighted roomswhere grain was stored. From bones and mummies found in the ruins it is provedthat they were a large, well developed, race, fuUv equal in ^ize. ?Kh£i -^ / j l!i: HIGH IOWJ to the men of to-day. The heads were well formed, anddenote a more than ordinary degree of intelligence, with ratherrefined faces, fair skin, and fine hair, often light and totallydifferent from most of the modern Indian races now known,excepting, perhaps, the Zuni Pueblo Indians—the most remark-able living representatives of the native tribes of America, ofwhom they are claimed to be, and that, with great possibility,the direct ancestors. Their homes were fortresses, where thevlived secure and tilled a living from the rich soil of the table-lands above them. Corn, beans, pumpkin and squash seedsfound in the houses show their chief articles of food, whilethe many implements used a
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