Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1920 — Island in the Air. [ARTICLE]

Island in the Air.

Three miles south of the Mesa Bncanbada In Mexico is a splendid specimen of fantastic erosion—an “island” in the air; a rock with overhanging sides nearly 400 feet high, seventy acres in area on the fairly level top, Indented with countless bays, notched with dizzy chasms. The greater part 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 Acoma is one of the prehistoric Puriilo architecture. It was only with inconceivable labor this island town in the air was built It was reached by a mere trail of toe holes up the stem of the “mushroom.” The age of the Island is not known, except that it was already old in 1540.