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the walls to be applied to some other use. Seldom, however, have all the rafters 

 disappeared, as in the Cliff Palace. There are no traces of the ravages of fire. 

 Perhaps the inhabitants were forced, during the course of a siege, to use the 

 timber as fuel ; but in that case it is difficult to understand how a proportionate 

 supply of provisions and water was obtained. This is one of the numerous 

 circumstances which are iirobably connected with the extinction or migration 

 of the former inhabitants, but from which our still scanty information of the 

 cliff-dwellers cannot lift the veil of obscurity. 



In addition to his description Nordenskiold gives a ground plan 

 of Cliff Palace" (pi. xi) ; a magnificent double page view of 

 the ruin frofn the west (pi. xiii) ; a fitie joicture of Speaker-chief's 

 House (pi. XII ) ; a view of the Round Tower (fig. 34) ; a figure and a 

 plan of an estufa of singular construction (T) ; a view of the interior 

 of Kiva C and of a small room at the back of the main rows of 

 rooms. No specimens of pottery, stone implements, and kindred 

 antiquities from. Cliff Palace are figured by Nordenskiold. In vari- 

 ous places throughout his work this author refers to Cliff Palace in a 

 comparati\T way, and in his descriptions of other ruins the student 

 will find more or less pertaining to it. 



In his book The Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos,^ Rev. Stephen D. 

 Peet devotes one chapter (VII) to Cliff' Palace and its surroundings, 

 compiling and quoting from Chapin, Birdsall, and Nordenskiold. 

 No new data appear in this work, and the illustrations are copied 

 from these authors. 



Dr. Edgar L. Hewett '^ briefly refers to Cliff Palace as follows 

 (p. 54) : 



II suffira de decrire les traits principaux d'un seul groupement de mines, et 

 nous choisirons Cliff' Palace, qui en est le specimen le plus remarquable (pi. i 

 ft). IJ est situe dans un bras de Ruin Canyon. La vue presentee ici est prise 

 d'un point plus eleve, au sud, d'ou Ton contemple les mines d'une ville ancienue, 

 avec des tours rondes et carrees, des maisons. des entrepots pour le grain, des 

 habitations et des lieux de culte. Le Cliff' Palace remplit une immense caverne 

 bien defendue et a I'abri des ravages des elements. Un seutier conduit aux 

 mines. Le i)lan (Fig. 2) represente les restes de 105 chambres au plain-pied. 

 On ne salt conibieu il y en avait dans les 3 etages superieurs, mais il est proba- 

 ble que Cliff-Palace n'ahritait pas moins de 500 personnes. 



Nous remarquons a Cliff"-Palace de grands progres dans I'art de la construc- 

 tion. Les murs sout faits de gres gris, faille avec des outils de pierre, dout on 

 voit encore les traces. Lorsqu'on se servait de laerres irregulieres, les crevasses 

 etaient remplies avec des fragments ou des eclats de gres, puis on platrait les 

 murs avec du mortier d'adobe. On prenait de .grosses poutres pour les pla- 

 fonds et les planchers, et Ton pent voir que ces poutres etaient degrossies avec 

 des instruments peu tranchants. 



° The Illustrations referred to in this paragraph are in Nordenskiold's work. 



'As stated in a note (Peet, p. 133) Chapter VII is a reprint of Doctor Birdsall's 

 article in the Journal of the American Geographical Societi/, op. cit. 



= In Les Communautes Anciennes dans le Desert Americain. In this work may be found 

 a ground plan of Cliff Palace by Morley and Kidder, the interior of kiva Q (pi. viii, e), 

 and a large view of the ruin taken from the north (pi. i, &). (Plate and figure designa- 

 tions from Ilewett.) 



