Fine forests of pine, oak, cedar, and maple surround it, and make it an ideal dwelling-place for a peaceful, primitive people.
The little knoll on which we were encamped rises on the north side of a brook which empties itself in the river.

It was in equally close proximity to the dwellings of the living and the dwellings of the dead.
Up the main stream, on the western wall of the canon, and about a mile from our camp, is a large cave containing the curious cupola-shaped structure already mentioned.

The cave is easy of approach up a sloping bank from its south side, and arriving at it we found it quite commodious and snug.

It is about eighty feet wide at its mouth, and about a hundred feet deep.

In the central part it is almost eighteen feet high, but the roof gradually slopes down in the rear to half that height.
A little village, or cluster of houses, lies at its back and sides.