If we should go by the way of the San Juan--" "The San Juan!" protested Thurstane.

"Nobody goes by the way of the San Juan." Coronado stopped, bowed, smiled, waited to see if Thurstane had finished, and then proceeded.
"Along the San Juan every hilltop is crowned with these monuments of antiquity.

It is like the castled Rhine.

Ruins looking in the faces of ruins.

It is a tragedy in stone.