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has a iaro:e front window and two smaller openings higher np in 

 the second story of the western w^all. The combined front walls 

 of rooms 17 and 18 may be ranked among the finest examples of 

 masonry in Cliff Palace. The large embrasures made in this wall 

 by vandals were repaired. 



Rooms 19 and 20 also present fine examples of masonry and were 

 evidently constructed before rooms 21, 22, and 23. The inner w^alls 

 of room 19 were plastered ; the outer wall was left rough. Room 20 

 shows crude masonry ; its rear wall is the vertical cliff, and the inner 

 surfaces of the tliree remaining walls of the upper story were plas- 

 tered, and painted with yellow sand or pigment. Apparently the 

 lower room was used as a granary, having no entrance, except possibly 

 through a hatchway in its roof, which forms the floor of the room 

 above. The presence of sticks projecting from the walls of this 

 room adds weight to the conclusion that it was used for storage. 

 There is no indication of a fireplace. 



Room 22 has a stepping-stone, which may have facilitated entrance, 

 projecting from the wall under an opening that probably served as 

 a doorway. 



Room 23 has a fireplace in one corner, and rooms 25, 26, and 27, 

 which are situated in a row, have for their rear wall the vertical face 

 of the cliff. Although thesie rooms are only one story high, the roof of 

 the cave slopes down low enough in the rear to form their roofs. The 

 outer walls were plastered, and each room was entered by a separate 

 doorway. Although their side walls were somewhat destroyed, they 

 appear not to have been intercommunicating. It is, in fact, rare 

 to find a doorway from one room into another on the same level, or 

 suites of rooms communicating with one another, but chambers one 

 above another are generally provided with hatchways. 



Room 28 is a two-story structure of excellent masonry, with an 

 entrance on its southern side and a window frame of stone. Its 

 second story formerly opened on the western side into room 29. Not 

 much now remains of the plastering that once covered the inner walls 

 of room 28, but the interior walls of room 29 still show well-preserved 

 ]ilaster. Although the latter room has excellent masonry, its south- 

 ern wall, or that facing kiva J. is entirely destroyed. The floor was 

 so well preserved that but little Avork was required to put it in good 

 condition. 



Rooms 30 to 33 are represented almost entirely by the side walls, the 

 front walls being more or less destroyed. Their floors lie on the same 

 level as those of the second terrace, and their roofs may have been 

 continuous with the thh-d terrace. There is indication of a room 

 (unnumbered) in the southwestern corner of plaza J, and another, too 

 mutilated to be described, on the.- second terrace below it. 



