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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...increased in number, so that we found ourselves sometimes on one bank, sometimes on another, as the natives had found advisable in making the path. After a toilsome march we reached the last spring of the Pueblo Creek; but we could still trace the dry bed of the stream up a hill of two hundred feet high that lay before us. This hill we saw must form the watershed; but since on its eastern declivity we were protected from the cold north-west wind, we determined to pass the night there, and examine the western face of it and the environs on the following morning. We climbed the hill, however, before dark, and to our great joy saw a level country spreading out towards the west. Jagged mountain peaks bounded the distant horizon, indeed, and extinct volcanoes at no great distance indicated rough ground; but it was highly satisfactory to us to discover, only a few hundred yards from the sources of the Pueblo Creek, new clefts and furrows pointing out the commencement of a stream, whose bed lost itself to our eyes in the far West. A pass through the Aztec Mountains was found therefore, though waggons could not be carried across it without immense labour; still the obstacles were of a kind that sufficient exertion could overcome, and they lay more in the ruggedness of the surface than in the actual conformation of the ground; the last mountain only was so steep as to threaten terribly hard work for the cattle. Content, for the present, with these conclusions we went back to the little camp, which we had pitched under some close cedars. The air was cold, the sky cloudy, and the whole region wrapped in impenetrable darkness. The fire, fed by resinous wood, threw a red light on the slender trunks of the nearest pines, moss-grown rocks, and exuberant though dwarfed ced...
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