. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . feet up a steep rock. Over it projects a giganticboulder, which, resting on or wedged between otherrocks, leaves a space of about four feet above the sur-face of the water. On the under side of this boulderare fantastic designs in red paint, which could only. have been made by persons lying on their backs inthis cool and sheltered spot. One of these, a singular 174 EVENTS AT geom
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . feet up a steep rock. Over it projects a giganticboulder, which, resting on or wedged between otherrocks, leaves a space of about four feet above the sur-face of the water. On the under side of this boulderare fantastic designs in red paint, which could only. have been made by persons lying on their backs inthis cool and sheltered spot. One of these, a singular 174 EVENTS AT geometric figure, I copied while resting in the sameposition secluded from the burning sun. In a deep cleft in the rock, on the south side of theroad which we followed for one hundred and fifty feetinto the interior, were many bones of wild this the hills expand, forming an amphitheatre,which is celebrated from its being the place where theApaches used formerly to hold their councils, and thescene of a contest between them and the Indians had been committing some depredationsand murders in the settlements, and, being pursued,were traced to the Waco Mountains. A partyset offfrom El Paso, and surprised them in the narrow spaceor amphitheatre alluded to. The besieged retreatedas far as possible; and finding no chance to escape,they built a wall across the entrance, which is aboutone hundred feet from one perpendicular mass of rockto the other. Her
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