The Hill, that looked so near to the mesaabove Hudson's yard, still stood aloof.
High on the edge of the mesa appears the ragged outline of a ruinous watch-tower sharply drawn against the clear, unvarying blue of the sky.
Flowing southward for a few miles through an open valley, it is soon enclosed between the walls of a profound cañon which cuts for nearly thirty miles through a tableland called the Mesa Verde.
Harry and Pearl went out into the beautiful new car, and took a long ride toward the Smelter Road, to the fork where you return by the Mesa Road.
Harry pulled the car off the road at the top of a small Mesa Butte, and turned off the lights.
The trail led upward in a slow, gradual slope to that point--a rugged promontory that jutted out from a mesa that rose above the floor of the valley.
When she reached the mesa she headed Billy directly for the break on the promontory.
The mesa was fringed at the southern edge with stunt oak and nondescript brush.
Mesa was a native of Mexico, but made his profession (1644) in the convent of San Pablo at Manila.
Matamoros and Alhama were condemned to eight years of presidio and Trigo to four, while similar sentences were pronounced in Seville on Tomas Bordallo and Diego Mesa Santaello.
In this protected corner of the mesa where the winds of ages had gradually deposited a thin sandy soil, the hand of man had planted two almost complete circles of trees.
The only means of reaching the towering elevation had been removed and the only visible sign of their brief occupancy of the secret mesa had been destroyed.
While Alan made haste to prepare breakfast, Ned determined first on an examination of the mesa point by daylight.
At every few yards they examined the face of the mesa for gaps or shelves, but there seemed hardly a resting place for a bird.
There was not the slightest ledge below it and the side of the mesa dropped so precipitately that access to the tunnel mouth from without seemed impossible.
When Ned and Alan were on top of the mesa again they were out of breath and their clothes were white with dust.
Between this comer of the mesa and the sharper promontory whereon the Cibola had come to anchor, was a wide, sandy, barren depression.
It ended abruptly in the face of the mesa cliff, one hundred feet above the valley below.
Tired and hot, the sun being now high above them, the young aeronauts finally reached the north-eastern corner of the mesa without finding a sign or suggestion of Indians, or even of animal remains.
Almost five days of wandering and the exhausting toil on the mesa had proved too much for the more delicate Alan, and Ned realized with sickening horror that the situation was critical.
The possibility of a climb to that entrance to reach the mesa above was out of the question.
While here, hearing of an ancient nearby pueblo, just south of the Mesa Verde, Major Honeywell and his friend drove to the settlement.
When he had advanced, making his way slightly upward all the time, to where the narrow mesa was not over four hundred feet wide, the lad was astounded to suddenly discover a deep and narrow fissure or chasm.
When we are stretched on a sunny mesa where the air quivers with heat, if you feel the need of more light, I promise to chant your song.
Why, it got to be so that one corner of the new cemetery out on the mesa was called her private lot.
In addition to the wagon road from Springerville to Nutrioso another road has been made from Springerville south across the Big Mesa to the head of Black River.
The greater part of this section of the Black Mesa Reserve is unsettled, but the northeastern corner, along Nutrioso Creek and the head of San Francisco River, is traversed by a wagon road leading to Springerville.
The most varied and beautiful part of the entire Black Mesa Reserve lies in the country extending southeasterly from Ord and Thomas peaks and immediately south of the "Big Mesa.
Among the reports was one on the Black Mesa Forest Reserve.
At a point where a ravine down which they had ridden debauched upon a mesa Rozales suggested that they ride to the north, which was not at all the direction in which Bridge intended going.
Through the river and the cut in the barbed-wire fence, then up the face of the bluff and out across the low mesa beyond the trail led.
Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.
Do you think they want all that mesa fenced up and farmed?
Over the mesa that was no more to know the fierce sound of strife.
And here one summer afternoon a man stepped forth from the long low tar-papered shack that served as headquarters, directing his gaze down the road across the mesa at a departing automobile.
Very humbly and gravely she accepted these attentions, thankful in her deepest heart that she had been "inspired," on that past winter day, to lead the father and son across the mesa to the little cabin where Gray Lady dwelt alone.
Jim walked a little distance from that point of the mesa and the others followed him wondering.
He was leading the way, as he spoke, toward the face of a mesa that abutted almost on the trail.
They left these behind near sunset, and came upon a huge, rude, cave-like opening in a mesa side.
Doctor Don Alvaro de Mesa y Lugo, auditor of this royal Audiencia, is one of the persons who most evidently excel in your Majesty's royal service, and who most firmly defend everything touching it, in both matters of justice and of revenue.
Captain Roderigo de Mesa I have appointed captain of a company which was brought to this city, and which he took to reinforce the forts of Therrenate.
Holding his hands in sight to show that his intentions were pacific, he came in closer and at last motioned to Pecos to come away from the mesa rim.
He followed the cloud of dust that stood for Pecos Dalhart until it tore up over the rim of the mesa and disappeared, and a deep and subterranean rumbling in his chest paid tribute to the joke.
From his station on the edge of the mesa he could see the dust to the east where his cowboys were bringing the day's beef-cut down to the river and then, far up toward the northern pass, a couple of horsemen jogging down the Tonto trail.
For Pecos had ridden out on the Carrizo trail without water, and the barren mesa had already claimed its dead from thirst.
I lay out on the mesa for two days," answered the cowboy, briefly, "and about a month afterwards a feller come out to my camp to see if I was dead.
The next work to be undertaken should be the excavation and repair of a Mesa Verde pueblo.
The star symbol, made up of four squares so arranged as to leave a space in the middle, is yet to be found in Mesa Verde.
The St. Andrews cross, which occurs sparingly on Mesa Verde pottery, is formed by joining the vertical angles of four isosceles triangles.
In a long, but not very deep branch of Cliff Canon, a wild and gloomy gorge named Cliff Palace Canon, lies the largest of the ruins on the Mesa Verde, the Cliff Palace.
On the level plateau above the ruin there are many trees--pines and cedars--but even this area is not so thickly wooded as the summit of the mesa above Spruce-tree House.
It is probable that one and the same cause led to the abandonment of Spruce-tree House, Cliff Palace, and other Mesa Verde cliff-houses.
One characteristic feature in which the cliff-dwellings of the Mesa Verde differ from some others is the independence of all of the upright walls from support of the sides of the cliffs.
Torrential rains on the mesa in the late summer form streams of water which, following depressions,[18] flow over the rim of the cave roof and are precipitated into the trees beyond the lowest terrace of the ruin.
In Hano, a pueblo on the East mesa of the Hopi, masks are kept in a special room back of a living room, a custom common to all the Hopi.
Present indications show a greater antiquity of the mesa ruin, the site of which afforded more adequate protection.
At the intersection of the road with the mesa trail, we stopped for a few moments to look over the battle-field of Guasimas.
Dutton describes the beautiful panorama that is to be seen as follows: "The edge of the mesa suddenly descends by a succession of ledges and slopes, nearly 2,000 feet into the rugged and highly diversified valley-plain below.
Still the beautiful Mesa de Herveo, the extinct volcano, displays like a great tablecloth from a giant table its gleaming mantle of perpetual snow, over 3,000 feet of white drapery.
The place is now known as the Mesa de Artigas--the table of Artigas.
The verb is in the singular because the subjects, =la mesa y el mantenimiento=, are taken to be one and the same thing.
Before the Nature-lover is tired of feasting his eyes upon that stately flower, shall begin to unfold the crumpled draperies of the great Mexican poppy, dotting the hillsides and the mesa with white, as far as the eye can reach.
This grand flower is the glory of the mesa or table-land at the foot of this range of the Rocky Mountains--the Cheyenne Range.
Even after months of absence, the bare memory of the song of the mesa will move its lover to an almost painful yearning.
As one went on, the fields grew broader, the walls of the mesa lowered and drew apart, till the cañon was lost in the wide, open country.
It is reached from Colorado Springs by an electric road which runs along the mesa south of the town.
We closed the deal to-day for the last half-mile of the main ditch right of way, which puts us up on the mesa slope above the Escalante Grant.
The elevated mesa upon which the suburb was built commanded a broad view of the town and the outlying ranch lands, and in the distance beyond the river the Hillcrest cottonwoods outlined themselves against a background of miniature buttes.
The remaining half, also on foot, was to cross at once on the railroad trestle, and to make its approach by way of the wagon road skirting the mesa foot.
While Harding was counting his men and appointing his lieutenants an automobile rolled silently down the mesa road from the north and came to a stand among the horses.
