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which, also, Pueblo Boiiito is one, to which reference is made else- 

 where.* 



That a greater number of years has elapsed since the occupation of 

 some of the ruined buildina;s is apparent in the physical features of 

 the surrounding areas. The geological formations are of such a char- 

 acter as ordinarily support forests, and the presence of large dry 

 water courses filled with sand, gravel, and round water-worn bould- 

 ers, furnish evidence of a once well- watered region. With the disap- 

 pearance of the forests, whether froin fires, aided by the requirements 

 of the people for architecture and fuel, or fiom other causes, the rain- 

 fall has ilecreased in proportion, so that little water, if any, remains 

 in the caiions and valleys for any length of time, even after the most 

 favorable season; and it is a fact well known, that since our first 

 knowledge of the country, various sections of it have been undergoing 

 a gradual process of desiccation. Extensive ruins occur at localities 

 which are at this day fifty miles from the nearest spring, and in which 

 the intervening water courses have become the l)ed of a growth of 

 timber. 



The modern Pueblo Indians a}ipear to have no knowledge of the 

 builders of the ruined dwellings with which they are surrounded, and 

 since the earliest reports, the modern communities seem to have al- 

 tered ]>ut little, tliough allowing their dwellings to present every in- 

 dication of decay and neglect.f 



* Vargas names the Pueblo of La C'ieueguilla. It is supposed to be be- 

 tween Santo Domingo and Santa F6. Ruins exist in tlie canon of the river 

 of Santa FC\ and these may be the remains of La C'ieneguia, as it is some- 

 times spelled. Augustin Kuiz visited Fuani in loHl, which is situated above 

 Tegua (on the river). It is about eight miles ai)ove All»uqupr(|ue on the Del 

 Norte, but it is long since in ruins. The Pueblo of the Galesteo, a village of 

 the Tanos nation, [.-<<>] is now also in ruins. This is situated two miles south 

 of Santa F*"'. [Extracted from Davis' Conquest of Xew .Mexico. 1869.] 



■j-It may be well to state in this connection that the Pimas have in several 

 instances been named as being closely connected with the Pueblos on ac- 

 cotmt of their comparative advancement in constructing their habitations. 

 In this respect there is no similarity whatever, rather comparing with the 

 former mode of building of the Mandans. In conversation with Dr. Willis 

 De Haas upon this sul)ject a short time since, he .stated that the circu- 

 lar heaps of earth indicating the former site of a Pima house had been the 

 means of suggesting the idea that the Mound Builders' remains (of a similar 

 character though more extensive) in the Ohio Valley had once su{)ported 

 the haliitations of the latter. In a communication from Dr. De Haas, dated 

 Dec. 28(1, 1879, he says, "Mr. Lewis H. Morgan (in a paper read before the 

 National Acad, of Sci., April, 1876, and N. A. Bevu/r, July, 1876,) maintains 

 that the mural works west and south were constructed for the support of 

 houses ; that the Mound Builders were Village Indians ; that they lived in 

 communities like the Pueblos and other southwest tribes. The article pub- 



