. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. to which we had ever before been. A TRNDKR foots 2 7 accustomed. The presence of the cacti and otherarid-loN-ino- phmts assured us that we were treading-the soil of the so-called Arid Region, which comprisesa third of the entire country. The villages of theprairie dog had become numerous, and the queer an-tics of this shy, Nigilant, nimble, barking marmot af-forded us much amusement. The stately owl antl thelazy rattlesnake were the constant but doubtless un-welcome co-partners with the prairie dog i
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. to which we had ever before been. A TRNDKR foots 2 7 accustomed. The presence of the cacti and otherarid-loN-ino- phmts assured us that we were treading-the soil of the so-called Arid Region, which comprisesa third of the entire country. The villages of theprairie dog had become numerous, and the queer an-tics of this shy, Nigilant, nimble, barking marmot af-forded us much amusement. The stately owl antl thelazy rattlesnake were the constant but doubtless un-welcome co-partners with the prairie dog in the occu-pancy of these \illages. The Court House Rock and the Chimney Rock^were among the more conspicuous of these natural curiosities, and both were!k^^ visible a considerable dis-tance. We took our nooning_ ^ nearU i^-- »- • ? -- -^--^^^^^ ^^ THE CHIMNEY EOCK. named, which arose before us isolated and in bold re-lief out of the bosom of the plain. Ahead, in the direction we were going, the spire of the other was peep-ing invitingl}- over the intervening hills. It would beeasy enough, to all appearanc
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