Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — STRANGE FORMATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STRANGE FORMATION.

A Camel-Shaped Rock Been on an Arizona Stage Road. Curious rock formations are to be found all over the world, but most of them require a long stretch of the Imagination before the objects they are said to represent can be seen. In Arizona there is one that is deserving of first place. It is a short distance cast of the stage road, between Tucson and Oracle, and stands on a knoll several feet above the surrounding sandhills. When first seen the effect Is startling, and the mind has to get over a shock before the peculiar object can be comprehended. It is a most perfect representation of a camel, and is formed of one piece of granite. No effort of the imagination is required to perceive the “ship of the desert” standing like a sentinel in the midst of the sand and almost verdureless hills. This curiosity is of colossal size, but perfectly proportioned. It is about sixty feet high and is very white and smooth. There are very few fissures on the surface, and they, strangely, are In the proper places to form features. TJie only real projection from the surface is exactly placed for an eyebrow. The two bumps are plainly to be seen, and the neck is curved beautifully. The rock is really a solid piece rising from the ground, but the effect of legs Is produced by a clump of dark-colored brush that grows beside the stone. The white stone shows plainly at both sides of the brush, and the effect of legs Is unmistakably produced. The strang-

est part of It is that it looks like a camel from all sides and at all times of the day or night. There is do disguising the resemblance. How the rock got into its present shape is one of the great mysteries of nature.

CAMEL-SHAPED ORAN ITS ROCK.