. Under the turquoise sky of Colorado .. . Manitou presents this season a new attraction in the CHffDwellers ruins, which were brought from the southern part ofthe State and reconstructed with great care in their original the materials, it is claimed, are from the original dwellingsand are so ingeniously reassembled as to excite the favorablecomment of expert archaeologists and scientists. The ruins are easy of access, being but a five-minute ride ora ten-minute walk from the car line. To add to the interestwhich naturally attaches to these features of prehistoric life, agroup of Nava
. Under the turquoise sky of Colorado .. . Manitou presents this season a new attraction in the CHffDwellers ruins, which were brought from the southern part ofthe State and reconstructed with great care in their original the materials, it is claimed, are from the original dwellingsand are so ingeniously reassembled as to excite the favorablecomment of expert archaeologists and scientists. The ruins are easy of access, being but a five-minute ride ora ten-minute walk from the car line. To add to the interestwhich naturally attaches to these features of prehistoric life, agroup of Navajo Indians are present to amuse the visitors withtheir strange dances, fantastic costumes and wonderful arts ofrug weaving and pottery making. Few more inspiring drives are possible than that from Colo-rado Springs northwest across the flower-strewn mesa towardGlen Eyre and the Garden of the Gods. Out on the highplateau the dry, thin air tingles with electricity and the sky isa cloudless azure. To our right the plains lie in illimitable. The Garden of the Gods expanse. Before us arises in solemn majesty Pikes Peak, withneighboring elevations apparently as high. We note the hazeupon the summit and the barrenness of desolation that marks it;lower down the timber line, above which nothing appears togrow, and lower still the various forms of vegetation. These silent mountains are always company. But see! the Garden of the Gods! Here indeed ones fancymay run free. Untrammeled by human limitations Nature hasoutdone herself. If this be not the Garden of the Gods, twashere they must have toiled to lend enchantment to the earth. We see here rocks in strangely garish colors, red and yellowand white, in enormous masses, lofty buttresses, towers andpinnacles, besides formations of lesser size, in fantastic shapesthat readily lend themselves to the imagination, and in which onesees as many pictures as in a fire of coals on a winter night, orthe clouds of heaven in a summer sky. Geologists t
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