. 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 . Well at Alamo Mucho. far as the eye can reach on every side, except on thesouth-west, where a chain of mountains appears some FORT YUMA. 135 thirty or forty miles distant. The undulations are fewand slight. Near our camp was a steep bank aboutsixty feet high, extending for miles, and descending toa great depression or basin, which appears to havebeen the bed of a lake. It was in
. 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 . Well at Alamo Mucho. far as the eye can reach on every side, except on thesouth-west, where a chain of mountains appears some FORT YUMA. 135 thirty or forty miles distant. The undulations are fewand slight. Near our camp was a steep bank aboutsixty feet high, extending for miles, and descending toa great depression or basin, which appears to havebeen the bed of a lake. It was in this bed that thewells or pits were sunk from which we obtained water. About twenty-five miles back from this place wecrossed a ravine or arroyo some twenty or thirty feetwide, and about ten feet below the surface of thedesert, that forms the bed of what is known as theNew River. Three or four years ago, this ravinewas filled with water, as well as a large basin connectedwith it. The water suddenly appeared here, and bypassing emigrants was hailed as a miracle and directinterposition of Divine Providence, like the mannafurnished to the Israelites of old. This phenomenon is now well known to proceedfrom the Col
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