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hill, as they were differently built on the level hog-backs. None of the 

 circular buildings were found to be divided, nor were any traces of such 

 buildings observed on lower ground. . . . 



" In riding past the foot of the precipice I observed what appeared to 

 be stone walls crowning its summit. Examination of the ridge dis- 

 closed the fact that a village, forming a single line of thirty houses, 

 extended along its narrow crest, twenty-two of them being south of 

 the causeway and eight north of it. The most southern in situation is 

 at some distance from the southern extremity of the hog-back. . . . 

 It is built on the western slope of the rock, a wall of 12 feet in height 

 supporting it on that side, while the narrow ledge forming the summit 

 of the ridge is its back wall. It is square, 3.355 meters on a side, and 

 has a floor leveled with earth and stones. . . . The second house 

 is immediately adjoining and is surrounded by an independent wall, 

 that on the lower side of the ridge being still 12 feet in height. The 

 length of the inclosure is 4.69 meters and the width 2.68 meters; full 

 sized scrub-oak and sage brush are growing in it. The stumps of two 

 cedar posts remain, one 5 the other 8 inches in diameter. The third 

 house adjoins No. 2, but is surrounded by a distinct wall, except at the 

 back, or side next the precipice, where a ledge of rock completes the 

 inclosure. The latter is 4.02 meters long. 



''Beyond these ruins is an interval of 69 meters, where the summit 

 of the rock is narrow and smooth. . . . The walls of an oval 

 building follow, which inclose a space of 4.69 meters. They are 2 to 

 2 J feet in thickness, and stand 8 feet high on the western side; the 

 eastern wall stands on the sheer edge of the precipice. A building 

 adjoins, with the dividing-wall common to the preceding house. Its 

 east and west walls stand on parallel ledges of the sandstone strata. 

 . Diameter of this inclosure 5.37 meters. A space of 15.4 

 meters follows, with precipices on both sides, when we reach house 

 No. 6. The eastern wall stands 5 feet high on the summit of the 

 precipice, from which a stone might be dropped to the ground, per- 

 haps 350 feet below. Only 8 feet of the western wall remained at the 

 time of my examination. The inclosure is 6.04 meters long, and not 

 quite so wide, and- is divided transversely by a wall, which cuts off lest, 

 than one-third of the apartment. In one of the opposite corners of 

 the larger room is the stump of a cedar post 5 inches in diameter. 

 This house can only be reached by climbing over narrow ledges and 

 steep faces of rock. House No. 7 follows an interval of 42.30 meters. 

 Its foundation-wall incloses an irregular square space 4.70 meters long 

 and 3.69 meters wide; it is 11 feet high on the western side, and very 

 regularly built and well preserved ; on the east side it is 8 feet liigh, and 

 is interrupted by a doorway of regular form. . . . 



"The crest of the ridge is without ruins for 52.34 meters farther, then 

 a building follows whose inclosed space is an irregular circle of 4.70 



