Cliff Dwellers
a race of Indians who lived in the cliffs bordering on the valleys of the Rio Grande and Rio Colorado. Their homes were built in the recesses of these cliffs at a height often of several hundred feet from the ground, and at the present time seemingly inaccessible, as the former paths that led to them have nearly all been destroyed by the crumbling away of the rocks. These dwellings sometimes consisted of many rooms, and in some cases were two or more stories high, hewn in the rock, with CLIFTON wooden lintels in the doors and windows, which were probably closed with skins or blankets. The walls were finished with a plaster of clay. The inhabitants subsisted probably mainly by hunting and fish, as the soil about these localities is barren. The Pueblo Indians, who are still to be found in that section, are descendants of the Cliff Dwellers, and possess considerable skill in making articles of pottery, etc.
CLIMATE perature, humidity, variations of barometric pressure, the tranquillity of the atmosphere or the effects of winds, the purity of the air, or its mixture with gaseous emanations more or less salubrious; and lastly, the habitual diaphanity of the atmosphere, that serenity of the sky so important on account of the influence which it exercises not only on the development of organic tissues in vegetables and the ripening of fruits, but N