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the site but never dreamed that under the surface of the earth there 

 existed so many walls and relics of a former pueblo. Taking as guides 

 the few stones in line, the outside walls of the rectangular building 

 (fig. 206) were revealed by a trench dug to the level of the foundation 



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and extending entirely around the ruin. \\'hen once this bounding 

 wall had been determined the contents of the rooms, composed of 

 the fallen tops of walls, were dug out and the number of chambers 

 determined. The most laborious part of this work was the removal 

 to a distance from the ruin of the rocks and other material that filled 

 the rooms or had accumulated outside their bounding walls. 



