. 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 . Chiricahui Mountains. hilly, hemmed in on all sides by lofty or three miles brought us to the opposite side of vol. i.—24 370 THE COPPER MINES the mountains, when a broad open plain appearedbefore us about twenty-five miles across, bounded bya lofty and continuons range known as the SierraChiricahui. Its course, like that of all the other longranges we had seen, was
. 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 . Chiricahui Mountains. hilly, hemmed in on all sides by lofty or three miles brought us to the opposite side of vol. i.—24 370 THE COPPER MINES the mountains, when a broad open plain appearedbefore us about twenty-five miles across, bounded bya lofty and continuons range known as the SierraChiricahui. Its course, like that of all the other longranges we had seen, was from the northwest to thesoutheast, with an irregular and jagged summit, oftenexhibiting picturesque and fantastic forms. The plainthat lay between us and the mountains was unbrokenby a hill or a tree. At the northwest the view waslimited by a very high mountain apparently seventyor eighty miles distant, which I supposed to be nearthe Gila. Both east and west of this mountain thecountry was open. In a southerly direction mountains
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