What to see in America . eather is seldomsevere. The plateau is rimmed by peaks, over thirty ofwhich are from 10,000 to 13,000 feet high. Santa Fe itselfis on the whole sleepy and ancient-looking, with streets thatare often so narrow as to be like paths among the juttingirregular fronts of adobe buildings. But there are modernstructures side by side with the primitive ones, and the re-cent and the antiquated offer curious contrasts. The plazahas evolved from a barren common to a bower of you may see on the streets a great heavy oxen-drawn cart with wheels that are thick disks
What to see in America . eather is seldomsevere. The plateau is rimmed by peaks, over thirty ofwhich are from 10,000 to 13,000 feet high. Santa Fe itselfis on the whole sleepy and ancient-looking, with streets thatare often so narrow as to be like paths among the juttingirregular fronts of adobe buildings. But there are modernstructures side by side with the primitive ones, and the re-cent and the antiquated offer curious contrasts. The plazahas evolved from a barren common to a bower of you may see on the streets a great heavy oxen-drawn cart with wheels that are thick disks of wood creakingon a wooden axle. Another odd sight is an occasional droveof donkeys, each bearing more than its bulk of cordwoodor hay, and all driven by an Indian or a Mexican. Roundabout are coal, gold, copper, mica, zinc, and lead mines. Thegently undulating hills that roll away in every direction formexcellent grazing lands, and are occupied by flocks of sheepand herds of cattle and goats. 432 What to See in America. ACOMA PlEBLO Santa Fe is the centerof what has been calledthe most wonderful fifty-mile square in a single days journeyyou can reach Indianpueblos and Mexican vil-lages, cliff dwellings andother prehistoric ruins,snow-clad peaks, and troutstreams. You can motorover smooth highways, orhunt the bear and themountain lion, or takelong camping trips onhorseback with pack out-fit and rough it to any ex-tent of the ancient civilization of the Cliff Dwellersare scattered around Santa Fe with astonishing miles to the south, on the Arroyo Hondo, are the ruinsof one communal village. Five miles to the southwest, atthe curious sprawling Mexican settlement of Agua Fria, is asimilar prehistoric village beneath a mound that is strewnwith thousands of pieces of ornamental crockery. Six milesto the north are similar ruins. But all these are negligiblecompared with the 20,000 communal and cliff dwellings inPajarito Park, across the Ri
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