Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ct cities of a prehistoric people, of the Colorado. .1 r ji plateau. This is not said of theruins which the Spaniards and theirdescendants left in this region after thebeo-inningof the sixteenth century, but orprehistoric memorials found 111 severallocalities. On the Colorado plateau 362 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. there are traces of extinct cities, reser-voirs, terraces, and aqueducts. Still morenotable, in the vall
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ct cities of a prehistoric people, of the Colorado. .1 r ji plateau. This is not said of theruins which the Spaniards and theirdescendants left in this region after thebeo-inningof the sixteenth century, but orprehistoric memorials found 111 severallocalities. On the Colorado plateau 362 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. there are traces of extinct cities, reser-voirs, terraces, and aqueducts. Still morenotable, in the valley of the Gila arescattered the monumental vestiges of avanished race. Along the river banksare the outlines and actual debris ofstone houses and military fortificationswhich belonged to a people long anteriorto the European conquerors who camewith Cortez and his successors. Thereare in many places, in a sort of fast-nesses which seem to have been selectedwith not a little care, the remains ofhuman habitations in great numbers cutfrom the native ledges, and constitutinga species of abodes which are in goodmeasure without an analogue among thehabitations built by men. In other. QUICHUAN ARCHITECTURE—REMAINS OF FORTRESS WALLS, AT CUZCO places walls of solid masonry, generallyrectangular in form, may be traced; andthe foundations of buildings which arethought to have been two or three storiesin height are plainly discernible in manylocalities. It can not be doubted, indeed,that along the river Gila in past ages,as well as in many other parts of theterritory of the United States, of Mexico,and of .South America, a great and evennourishing prehistoric population ex-isted, of which the only record is in thecrumbling monumental remains whichare left behind. If we attempt to discriminate among theruins of Southwestern North America, ofCentral America, and of Peru, and to decide what proportion of them are referable to the activities of the races inhab-iting the Western conti- chronol
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