Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — "Island” in the Air. [ARTICLE]

"Island” in the Air.

Three miles south of the Mran Encanbada in Mexico is a splendid specimen of fantastic erosion—an “Island” In the air; a rock with overhanging sides nearly 400 feet high and 70 acres in area on the fairly level top. indented with countless bays, notched with dizzy chasms. The greater oart of the Island overhangs the sea like a huge mushroom, and on the top stands a town which for artistic charm, ethnological interest, and romantic history has no peer. This little town of Ancoma is one of the pre-hlstorlc Pueblo architecture. It was only with inconceivable labor this Island town In the air was built. It was reached bv a mere trail up the stem of the “mushroom.” - The age of the island is not known, except that it was already old in 1540. < .