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Glimpses of our National Monuments

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  • OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS 21 as to give it the appearance of a great castle. On its smooth sides are the inscriptions of five of the early Spanish governors of New Mexico, as well as of many intrepid padres and soldiers who were among the first Europeans to visit this part of the world. Lying as it did on the first highway in New Mexico, the Zuni-Acoma Trail, this rock sheltered as a true fortress many parties whose course took them this way. The shape of the giant monolith is such that an expedition of soldiers could find protection within the cove on the south side, in which was located the water so necessary to the PHOTO BY HERBERT QLEASON El Morro traveler in those days. Here, with a few outguards on the one exposed side, no successful surprise attack could have been made by hostile Indians. The earlist inscription on the rock is that of Don Juan de Onate, governor and colonizer of New Mexico, and founder of the city of Santa Fe, who in 1606, on his return from a trip to the head of the Gulf of California, passed by El Morro and carved a record of his visit. The inscription of Governor Manuel de Silva Nieto, who succeeded Onate, and who took the first missionaries to Hawiku,
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