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appeared to be such, most of them being at the pond bottom. 
On our first visit we crawled into one which was eighteen 
inches above the bottom, and succeeded in getting in far 
enough to discover that it branched into two passages or 
rooms. Returning a few days later with tools this entrance 
was converted into an open cut extending to the point where 
the rooms separated. Here the log barred further progress. 
I could, however, wriggle into the rooms, and obtained sufh- 
cient data to make the accompanying plan. The rooms were 
scarcely a foot high, and I had to lie flat on either my back 
or abdomen to make the necessary measurements. Return- 
ing a few days after this I found the roof had settled so 
much that it was impossible to get in. The house was evi- 
dently an old one and the sticks composing it were very much 
decayed. A long wire introduced into the various entrances 
always came against some obstruction which interfered with 
its further progress (Figs. 30 and 31). 
From the size of the lodge we expected larger chambers or 
more of them. As the plan shows, there was space for 
another room south of that found on that side, and one may 
have been there. There were trails over the top of the 
house, and in the right hand room were found porcupine 
quills and dung. Woodchucks or marmots also frequented 
the place, sunning themselves on the top. 
The first lodge which I ever opened was in Colorado. 
This was built of willow brush mixed with mud. It was 
easily cut across with an axe so as to expose the room. 
This lodge had been abandoned for some time. Before 
opening it measured ten feet across from east to west, and 
eight feet across the section from north to south, along the 
line where the cutting was done. The room was two feet 
wide and extended back 4% feet. It was ten inches high, 
but the roof had undoubtedly settled. The latter was 
twenty-two inches thick, and the walls on either side three 
