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is from a banquette (10) on the western side, where there is a pas- 

 sageway from this lower story of room 11 to room 12, situated in its 

 rear. Room 12 has a good floor, and room 11 a fireplace in the south- 

 Yv'estern corner of the loAvest room of the square tower. Almost all 

 the beams of the higher rooms of this tower had been taken out, 

 leaving nothing but the holes in the walls to indicate the former ex- 

 istence of floors. The beams now connecting the walls were placed 

 there by our workmen to serve as staging and for tying the sides to- 

 gether. The second and third stories of the square tower are also 

 without floors. Their inner Avails are plastered a reddish color, in 

 places whitewashed, and the third wall is decorated with interesting 

 pamtings. In the western wall of the second story was a small 

 window, and portions of a large T-shaped cloonvay still show on the 

 northern wall of the third story. Split sticks support the section 

 of wall from the top of this doorway to the roof of the cave. From 

 the arrangement of its rear walls it would appear that the whole of 

 this tower was built subsequently to the rooms back of it, which 

 extend on each side, north and south. The repair of a doorway of 

 the northern wall was difficult, the foundation walls of the eastern 

 and northern corners of the tower being slabs of stone set on edge, 

 quite inadequate to support the lofty wall above. This insufficient 

 foundation leads to the belief that when the base of the square tower 

 was constructed there Avas no thought of erecting upon it the four 

 stories that we noAv find. (PL 12, 13(7, 14a.) 



Some of the rooms of the square toAver bear evidence of having 

 been living rooms, and possibly the approaches to the upper chambers 

 Avere by ladders from the outside ; otherAvise the T-shaped doorAvay on 

 the northern side, above the painted room, remains unexplained. 



Room 12, situated east of the square toAver, has no characteristic 

 features, being more a passageAvay than a room, opening at one end 

 into room 13 and connecting Avith kiva D at tlie other end. 



Room 13 likeAvise presents no distinctive features; its rear Avail is 

 considerably blackened by smoke, and it has a large square windoAv 

 opening into room 12. 



A large part of the front walls of rooms 14, 16, and 24 has fallen, 

 having been destroyed by falling Avater. To obviate future destruc- 

 tion, the southAA'estern corner of room 16 was repaired Avith cement, 

 thus preventing further harm from dripping Avater. Rooms 16 and 

 24 evidently formed a front terrace, i:)erhaps one story high, then- 

 rear wall being the front Avail of rooms 17 and 18. 



Rooms 17 and 18 are of two stories; both are square. The upper 

 part of its Avails shoAvs that a portion of room 18 Avas formerly 

 one story high and that the walls were erected before those of room 

 17. A coping of masonry around three Avails is a feature of room 18, 

 the construction of which is superior to that of room 17. This room 



