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transverse layers of brush or splinters to support the earthen cover- 

 ing. The stones of the walls, which have been derived from the cliffs 

 in the vicinity, are rather even in size, and have been in cases slightly 

 dressed on the outer surface. The length of the ruin -from northeast 

 to southwest is about 350 yards, and the greatest width is some 200 

 yards. The rows of ruined buildings have a width of from 20 to 30 

 feet. Seven circular kiva-like depressions are associated with the 

 ruin. Six of these are approximately 20 feet in diameter, and the 

 sixth, a part of the encircling wall of which is intact, is 32 feet in diam- 

 eter. On the side opposite the canyon is a large depression, 150 feet 

 in diameter and five or six feet deep, which contains a pool of water, 

 and was undoubtedly used as a reservoir. 



No. 1^7 . — Another ruined pueblo of large size and comparatively 

 well preserved is situated in an open space in the forest on the sum- 

 mit of a spur of the plateau overlooking the canyon of the first north- 

 ern tributary of the west fork of Jemez creek and some two miles west 

 of the great ruin (Amoxiumqua) overlooking Jemez' Hot Springs. 

 This ruin was seen from the opposite side of the canyon, but lack of 

 time forbade an attempt to visit it. 



No. Jf.8. — A ruin of more than usual interest is situated on the west 

 bank of San Diego creek, about 15 miles above Jemez pueblo. At the 

 base of the low terrace on which this ruin stands, and between its base 

 and the creek, the Survey camp was established. Two ravines rising 

 close together in the plateau, face to the west, separate as they approach 

 the creek bed, leaving a somewhat triangular terrace remnant with 

 gently sloping surface, on which the ruin is situated. This terrace r.t 

 the lower margin is about 50 feet in height and 150 yards long, and is 

 perha]:)s 100 yards deep to the base of the steep slope on the west. 

 The ruin includes one principal centrally-placed group of structures 

 and four or five inferior structures, as indicated on the ground ])lan 

 (fig. 30). The central grouj), a, consists of two wings of unequal 

 length and from 30 to 60 feet in width, connected at the upper end by 

 a transverse group of razed chambers. The length of the longer wing 

 is about 320 feet, and of the other about 150 feet. The mass of debris 

 indicates the outline of the buildings with perfect clearness and is in 

 places 10 feet in height. The chambers were numerous and irregular 

 in arrangement, but the state of the ruin is such as to make the details 

 of the plan difficult to trace. At the upper end of the intramural 

 space is a kiva depression 20 feet in diameter and two or three feet 

 deep; and at the lower end, near the edge of the terrace and next the 

 wall of the longer wing, is another of like diameter and about four 

 feet in depth. On the opposite side, against the wall of the shorter 

 wing, is a stone heap some 10 feet in diameter and a few feet in height. 

 North of the longer wing of the central structure, 40 feet distant, and 

 extending along the northern margin of the terrace, is a ruin, h, some 

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