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were exposed, each bearing fireplaces and other remains of habita- 
tions. Careful examination of the artifacts from these superimposed 
levels failed, however, to show that their inhabitants were other 
than those who had occupied the lower houses or that any consider- 
able period of time had elapsed between the occupancy of the lowest 
and the uppermost levels. 
Similar dwellings were unearthed near Paragonah, in Iron County. 
Owing to lack of time no effort was made to study the houses 
concealed by the larger mounds; the four small elevations examined 
contained only individual rooms which differed but little from those 
Fic. 82.—Small cliff-village in Cottonwood Canyon, near Kanab, Utah. 
near Beaver City. Twenty years ago more than 100 mounds were 
counted at this place; today, only a few remain, the others having 
been recently razed and the artifacts they contained scattered over 
the newly plowed fields. While it is impossible to check this destruc- 
tion, since the mounds are upon privately owned land, it is not yet 
too late to determine the architectural peculiarities of the primitive 
houses over which the mounds have accumulated and to gauge the 
degree of culture to which the ancient inhabitants had attained. 
One day was spent near St. George, in the southwestern corner 
of the State, a region which received much attention from Dr. Edward 
Palmer, of the National Museum, between the years 1870 and 1876. 
The vast increase in the number of cultivated acres has brought about 
the destruction of most of the formerly abundant archeological 
remains, only a few small and isolated house sites being now visible. 
