The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . in, and the rudecorn-grinder still used by the Sogreat was the quantity of this pottery, andthe extent of ground covered by it, thatLieut. Emory conjectured it must havebeen used for pipes to convey were also, scattered about, manyfragments of agate and obsidian. Thevalley was evidently once the abode of abusy people. Tradition both among theSpaniards and Indians fails to reach them. Two days subsequently, Lieut. Emoryobserved ruins, which so far as he couldjudge, (the ground being covered wi
The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . in, and the rudecorn-grinder still used by the Sogreat was the quantity of this pottery, andthe extent of ground covered by it, thatLieut. Emory conjectured it must havebeen used for pipes to convey were also, scattered about, manyfragments of agate and obsidian. Thevalley was evidently once the abode of abusy people. Tradition both among theSpaniards and Indians fails to reach them. Two days subsequently, Lieut. Emoryobserved ruins, which so far as he couldjudge, (the ground being covered withmezquite bushes,) must formerly havebeen occupied by from five to ten thou-sand inhabitants. The outUne of the buildings, and the pottery presented noessential differences from those already de-scribed. About eleven miles from thispoint, on a knoll, Avere found the traces ofa solitary house, somewhat resembling afield work, en cremalliere. The enclosurewas complete, and the faces varied fromtwenty to thirty feet. The accompanying cutwill convey an accurate idea of the Fio. 3. 510 New Mexico and California. [Nov., A few remains similar to those above no-ticed were observed at various points, asLieut. Emorys party progressed. At oneplace, on the summit of a promontory ofpitch stone, six or eight symmetrical andwell-turned holes, about ten inches deep,and eight inches wide at the top, werefound ; near one of which, in a secludedspot, was lying a well-turned pestle. Itis supposed these were the mortars orcorn-mills of the ancient inhabitants. In lat. 33° N., long. 112° W., , for the first time, found buildingsstanding, at all corresponding to the struc-tures he had been led to suppose existedon the Gila, and known as the CasasGrandes, or Casas Montezuma. Thelatter name is the one common among theIndians, with whom Montezuma is the out- ward point of their chronology, from whichevery event is dated. His memory is re-garded with the profoundest veneration. Near
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