The national parks portfolio . E who have traveled through our Southwestern States haveseen from the car window innumerable mesas or isolated plateausrising abruptly for hundreds of feet from the bare and often aridplains. The word mesa is Spanish for the level of these mesa tops was the level of all of this vast South-western country, but the rains and floods of centuries have washed away thesofter earths down to its present level, leaving standing only the rocky spotsor those so covered with surface rocks that the rains could not reach the softergravel underneath. The Mesa Verde,
The national parks portfolio . E who have traveled through our Southwestern States haveseen from the car window innumerable mesas or isolated plateausrising abruptly for hundreds of feet from the bare and often aridplains. The word mesa is Spanish for the level of these mesa tops was the level of all of this vast South-western country, but the rains and floods of centuries have washed away thesofter earths down to its present level, leaving standing only the rocky spotsor those so covered with surface rocks that the rains could not reach the softergravel underneath. The Mesa Verde, or green mesa (because it is covered with stunted cedarand pinyon trees in a land where trees are few), is perhaps most widely Mesa Verde is one of the largest mesas. It is fifteen miles long andeight miles wide. At its foot are masses of broken rocks rising from three hun-dred to five hundred feet above the bare plains. Above these rise the cliff dwellings nestle under its overhanging cliffs near the IN THE CLIFF DWELLINGS
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