Many other legends are told to account for the singular formations, but none are so old and often repeated as the one here related. The region was certainly regarded by the early people who occupied it as possessing supernatural features, a fact attested not alone by the traditions so carefully preserved, but by rude carvings found on pieces of shale dug up in the valley, and winged images carved from gypsum, which appear to be very crude representations of a conception of preternatural creatures. These relics, however, are very few, and by many are pronounced spurious, so that it would be treading on doubtful ground to attempt to introduce evidence of the faith imposed by the Toltecs in such legends, or how they sought to perpetuate them. It is sufficient, therefore, to accept the curiosities that are in this wonderful garden merely as strange freaks of nature, without considering the tales handed down from a questionable source, pretending to show that the formations are the results of supernatural causes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: THE IDIOT, MONUMENT PARK.] [Illustration: MOTHER GRUNDY, MONUMENT PARK.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PHANTOM FALLS, NORTH CHEYENNE CAÑON.] [Illustration: CASTLE FALLS, NORTH CHEYENNE CAÑON.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: HELL GATE, AUSABLE CHASM.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER III. THE GRAND CAÑONS OF WESTERN RIVERS. [Illustration: CRYSTAL FALLS, CASCADE CAÑON.]