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Show "I have been four weeks riding among the ruins of the great prehistoric prehis-toric city, and I find it covers wider area ti.en what J had at first sup. posed, something like one thousand acres. I have dug into some subterranean subter-ranean chambers of the larger buld-j ings and found them .filled with i broken pieces of plaster painted bnght red and white, and, on the I floors, beads, axes, idols and broken pottery. In one excavation which I made, at a place called Guayabo, I found at the depth of nine feet from the surface,, under an altar, an olla of terra cotta filled with dirt and inixed among it were seventy-two 6bjects of mother-of-pearl, all perforated, perfor-ated, and five of them were heads ul kings with crowns nicely carved. The olla was broken by the pick of Ji peon, but 1 saw it in time andr with ny own hands picked up every fragment frag-ment and preserved one half of the olla, with the dirt and objects sticking stick-ing in it undisturbed. "I found at other places bones of strange animals, and have carefully packed some. 1 have already taken over twcKfcundrod pictures, fifty of which I have developed, and lost only two. I found the ruins of twenty temples and tjvo great pyramids" Mohave Couiifty Miner. . , . . . ; 4 A:PreH:torio' City. f A New York dispatch of recent ' f .' ' date gives the following description Of a city recently discovered in Mexico: Mex-ico: liuned and forgotten for ages amid the rank vegetation of. a tropical trop-ical forest a prehistoric American city has been discovered by a New I - York explorer in the mountains of Mexico. William Niven, the eth-nologist, eth-nologist, has known of thegruins for : several years, but it was only after he returned to Mexico , in July jast for a thorough examination and investigation in-vestigation of the city that he realized real-ized the splendid extent and grandeur gran-deur of his fpul. Quechomitlipan, by which name the city is known, :is in the canton of Guerrero and Nivens-sav.the ruins cjoyec an area of a thousand'ccies. .Whether it is one ot the former : - tcapitals of the Aztecs, or whether ' he remains belong to a period of some even earlier civilization may - not be determined till the explorer re turns to this country and submits the antiquities he has collected and ' the photographs which he has made . v to ethnologists and antiquarians. But the temples and pyramias he . has found and the specimens dug up: pvove the city was at some time one " ; of the great centers of wealth and ; ' power of the American himisphere - It may become evident that America, V.-,'. instead of being the "New World'j , is really, as compared with Europe . ' .and Egypt, the older world of the ' two. He writes: I |