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to be seen.

Collection from adobe ruins, 2 1/2 miles from Mesa City: Chipped quartzite discs, cutting-tools, grooved mauls, rubbing-stones, a paint-mortar, stone balls used in games, large stone mortars, and fragments of shell ornaments; 20 specimens.

Collection from adobe ruins near Phoenix: A clay spindle-whorl, a paddle-shaped wooden implement used in making pottery, and fragments of shell ornaments; 17 specimens.

Mr. Palmer says: "At a distance the ruins appear like ordinary Indian mounds, and vary from 5 to 20 feet in height. Correctly speaking, the walls are not of adobe, but are made of adobe-earth or mud, which is pressed into large wooden boxes, and when it is sufficiently dry, the box is raised up, moved along, and again filled.*) The inner surfaces of the walls are made smooth and sometimes covered with a white-wash.

The whole country has a dry and barren appearance, and is covered with plants seen nowhere else but on deserts; embracing the numerous species of cactus, the mesquite, [[underline]] Larrea Mexicana [[/underline]], and plants of that character.
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*) A similar account is given by Mr. J.R. Bartlett in his "Personal Narrative" (Vol. II, p.277).