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hoppers then fallen in ruins.

The human occupation of these sand-stone caves was possible, but not probable.  The field appeared infructuous, and we determined to leave it.  While it would have been more gratifying to have found evidences of human occupation, yet our work was not without its value in establishing a negative, that is, that these caverns had not been occupied during prehistoric times, of by prehistoric peoples.  We were not on an expedition which could spend either time or labor in continuing these explorations which, in order to be completely satisfactory, should be organized on a more extensive and systematic scale than we were pursuing., and which is hardly to be expected until after the occupied caves shall have been exhausted.

We hitched up our team and started across the country very nearly south, over the roughest hilly roads and through the poorest fields we had yet seen, intending to examine the