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count of a collection of stone implements from Coyote and Guadaloupe 

 Eivers, California. [The Smitlisonian Institution is in receipt of let- 

 ters constantly, giving account of the destruction of valuable collec- 

 tions by fire. It has been the policy of the Institution to foster private 

 and local museums in every possible way; but it is an irreparable loss 

 to science when a large and unique collection is thus destroyed.] 



Chase, Alex. W. Mentions the site of a large buried village of stone 

 houses on the mill-site of the Grand Central mine, near Tombstone, 

 Ariz. In one house were seven skeletons, one of which had on the 

 wrist a bracelet of ivory or bone beads. In one of the houses were 

 found stone tools, mortars, &c. 



Click, Thomas M. Eeports that there are mauy ruins in Colorado, 

 near Dolores, in La Plata County. The largest seen by the writer is 

 situated on Animas River, in Taos County, j^ew Mexico. The build- 

 ings are in groups. Two of the largest were five stories high, each 

 about 100 to 120 yards square, built of stoDC and adobe mortar. The 

 walls at the base are 3 feet thick, with small openings or windows G 

 feet above ground to admit air, but not large enough to allow a man 

 to pass through them. The floors were constructed by laying large 

 cedar logs across the wall for joists, and by covering these with cedar 

 splits and mud. The buildings stand in or near the centre of what 

 was a town or village. The other houses were much smaller and built 

 of small bowlders and mud. There are no cedars in the region at pres- 

 ent so long and so large as those in the houses. Many remains of 

 cliff-houses are found on the bluffs, some on the Dolores Eiver, in La 

 Plata County. They are built of sandstone and mud. Pottery, ar- 

 row-heads, corn-cobs, charcoal, stone axes and hammers, and skele- 

 tons have been found in these ruins. The buryiug-groiinds are gen- 

 erally laid out in a regular manner, the bodies being placed with the 

 head to the west. Two skeletons were unearthed on the Rio Mancos, 

 near Mancos P. O., La Plata County, that were lying one across the 

 other, with an earthen jar under the head of each. 



Conway, John W. Describes a visit to the old abandoned pueblo of 

 Cuyamanque, which was one of the first built in i^ew Mexico. The 

 ruins are about four miles below the pueblo of Tesuque, on the west 

 bank of the same river. This pueblo was destroyed in 1G97, by Gen- 

 eral Diego de Vargas. Tesuque, Cuyamanque, Pojuaque, Xambe, San 

 Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and San Juan had raised an insurrection, and 

 collected together on a high mesa to fight the Spanish forces. They 

 were completely routed, being driven across the Rio Grande, either 

 to the cliff-houses on the west side of the Ildefonso, or over towards 

 the ISfavajos country. The pueblos of Cuyamanque, Pojuaque, and 

 Nambe were destroyed by General Vargas. Twenty years afterwards 

 the Indians were brought back to their old dwellings, excepting those 

 of Cuyamanque, who were scattered among the other pueblos. Dig- 

 ging around this ruin, Mr. Conway discovered specimens of painted 

 pottery, and stone implements. 



