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cannot say, of course. From the fact that no human bones 

 were found anjrwhere about, the probability of design is less- 

 ened. That the larger structure had been destroyed by fire 

 there can be no doubt, since the adobe is burnt, and charcoal 

 is thickly scattered everywhere; the stone and bone imple- 

 ments also all show evidence of fire. Rooms IV and VII, as 

 I have designated them, show only slight evidence of the fire, 

 and it is possible that one or both of these rooms had never 

 been covered, and hence contained but little subject to de- 

 struction by fire. Room IV had portions of the rotted posts, 

 evidently used as a ladder, remaining. 



"Charred corn was found in every room except VII, in some 

 places four or five inches deep. In room V there had been four 

 or five bushels of this corn in a slightly hollowed out place at 

 one side. 



"About twenty-five yards north of the main structure there 

 appears to have been three or four small structures, each sepa- 

 rated a small distance in an east and west line parallel with 

 the main building. These structures were apparently circular 

 in outline, and were perhaps teepes. 



"The most interesting rjoom in the structure is the one I will 

 designate as room I. Its dimensions were seventeen feet by 

 thirteen feet and nine inches. It had a raised dais or platform 

 on two sides, about six inches high ; that on the west side five 

 feet and three inches wide; that on the north side two feet. 

 The wider one was doubtless used for sleeping purposes, and 

 the narrow one as a bench. Very near the center of the room 

 there is a box-like receptacle, formed of thin stone set edge- 

 wise. Like the others described further on, the bottom of this 

 one was about six inches below the level of the floor, and its 

 size was eighteen by twenty-one inches. It had been plastered 

 at the bottom, and contained, when examined, a quantity of 

 clean wood ashes. The receptacle may have been for the grind- 

 ing and mixing of corn. In the southwest corner of the room 

 there is a peculiar structure three feet nine inches in length by 

 two feet and one inch in width, inside measurements, built of 

 adobe. Its walls are eighteen inches high at the west end and 

 twelve at the east end, the slope gradual from one end to the 

 other. The walls, five or six inches in thickness, had been 

 nicely rounded at the top. In the middle, and joined to the 

 west end, is a small platform, about sixteen inches in length 

 by twelve in width, raised about six inches above the bottom 



