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doubtless selected on account of its defensible character, tlie pueblo 

 being situated at least 800 feet above the level of the creek and its 

 walls built flush with the edge of the precipice. The great Pedernal 

 peak, from which the village takes its name, rises on the other side of 



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Fig. 20.— Ground plan of Chipiinuinge. 



the canyon about 2 miles to the southwest. The pueblo is inaccessible 

 except by a single trail wliich winds up from the Polvadera and reaches 

 the summit of the mesa at its south end, passing thence through two 

 strongly fortified gaps before the pueblo is reached. The site was 

 impregnable against any form of attack possible in savage warfare. 



