Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Cliff Dwellings. [ARTICLE]

Cliff Dwellings.

There- are #ome remarkable- ruins about fouir miles southeast e£ Magdalena,, Mexico, in tba State ofi Sbnora, whioixi liatve of late attracted a* good deal e ft' notice. There is among these one pyramid, with a base oi 4,320 feet square amd an elevation of 750 feet. It .lias-ai winding roadway, leading by an easy gjtade from bottom to> tops wide mough for carriages. This* is several miles long. In the sides o£ this mountain, as. one ascends, he passes hundreds of chambers out in the solid rook, with, walls* floor, and ceiling hewn t® an even precision truljr remarkable. These--1 Chambers vary m size from five to ten,, ! sixteen, and even eighteen feet square. There are no windows and but one entrance, which is always- from the top. The height ©f the ceiling, usually* is eight feet. The walla are covered in places with heiroglypldcs and figures of men and animals. In some places, feet and hands of human beings are found cut in the rock. Who constructed these dwellings is not now certainly known. Some claim that they were the ancestors of the ancient Aztecs or Toltecs. It is not improbable that they are the remains of ancient Zuni tribes. —lnter Ocean. An old lady in Portland, Me., who was acquainted with Ralph Waldo Emerson, and knew him well in later life, says that he was so indolent that she was not at all surprised when he gave np preaching and went to live in Oon-. «ord t simply to think.