ve been found in the ruins are some very fine
specimens of pottery which are as symmetrical and well finished as if
they had been turned on a potter's wheel, and covered with an opaque
enamel of stanniferous glaze composed of lead and tin that originated
with the Phoenicians, and is as old as history. Can it be possible
that the cliff dwellers are a lost fragment of Egyptian civilization?

The cliff ruins in Arizona are not only found in the canons of the
Colorado river, but also in many other places. The finest of them are
Montezuma's Castle on Beaver creek, and the Casa Blanca in Canon de
Chelly. Numerous other ruins are found on the Rio Verde, Gila river,
Walnut Canon and elsewhere.

The largest and finest group of cliff dwellings are those on the Mesa
Verde in Colorado. They are fully described in the great work[1] of
Nordenskiold, who spent much time among them. The different houses are
named after some peculiarity of appearance or construction, like the
Cliff Palace, which contains more than one hundred rooms, Long House,
Balcony House, Spruce Tree House, etc.

He obtained a large quantity of relics, which are also fully described,
consisting of stone implements, pottery, cotton and feather cloth,
osier and palmillo mats, yucca sandals, weaving sticks, bone awls, corn
and beans.

Many well-preserved mummies were found buried in graves that were
carefully closed and sealed. The bodies were wrapped in a fine cotton
cloth of drawn work, which was covered by a coarser cloth resembling
burlap, and all inclosed in a wrapping of palmillo matting tied with a
cord made of the fiber of cedar bark. The hair is fine and of a brown
color, and not coarse and black like the hair of the wild Indians.
Mummies have been exhumed that have red or light colored hair such as
usually goes with a fair skin. This fact has led some to believe that
the cliff dwellers belonged to the white race, but not necessarily so,
as this quality of hair also belongs to albinos, who doubtless lived
among the cliff dwellers as they do among the Moquis and Zunis at the
present day, and explains the peculiarity of hair just mentioned.

These remains may be very modern, as some choose to believe, but, in
all probability, they are more ancient than modern. Mummies encased in
wood and cloth have been taken from the tombs of Egypt in an almost
perfect state of preservation which cannot be less than two thousand
years old, and are, perhaps, more t