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Synopsis
Excerpt from Southwest Sketches
The mesa country, which includes thousands of Square miles of territory in northern Arizona and New Mexico, is a. Land of rare fascination.
In early geologic times it was lifted from the ocean bed by volcanic action to an elevation of several thou sand feet above the sea. Originally, it presented a uniform flat surface between mountain ranges which, in the course of time, became eroded and cut up into mesas, canyons and valleys. Only patches of table lands of the original plain now remain in evidence and appear at intervals upon the Sky line.
Although the region is desert and dry, it has an attraction of its own that lures the visitor and either causes him to stay or else to return again and again. The whole scene, with all that goes with it of earth, air and sky, is deeply impressive and not easily for gotten.
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