FEWKES] MASONRY OF PALATKI pay) 
up of irregular or roughly squared blocks of red stone laid in red clay, 
both evidently gathered in the immediate neighborhood of the ruin. 
The building stones vary in size, but are as a rule flat, and show 
well directed fractures as if dressed by hammering. In several places 
there still remains a superficial plastering, which almost conceals the 
‘inasonry. The blocks of stone in the lower courses are generally more 
massive than those higher up; this feature, however, whether consid- 
ered as occurring here or in the cliff houses of Mesa Verde, as pointed 
out by Nordenskiéld, seems to me not to indicate different builders, but 
is due simply to convenience. There appears to be no regularity in 
the courses of component blocks of stone, and when necessity com- 
pelled, as in the courses laid on bowlders, which serve as a foundation, 
thin wedges of stone, or spalls, were inserted in the crevices. The walls 
are vertical. but the corners are sometimes far from perpendicular. 
The interior of the ruin is divided into a number of inclosures by 
partitions at right angles to the front wall, fastening it to the face of the 
cliff. This I have lettered, beginning at the extreme right inclosure 
with A. The inclosure has bounding walls, built on a bowlder some- 
what more than six feet high. It has no external passageway, and prob- 
ably the entrance was from the roof. This inclosure communicates by 
a doorway directly with the adjoining chamber, 6. The corner of this 
room, or the angle made by the lateral with the front walls, is rounded, 
a constant feature in well-built cliff houses. No windows exist, and the 
upper edge of both front and lateral walls is but slightly broken. 
The front wall of inclosure B bulges into bow-shape form, and was 
evidently at least two stories high. This wall is a finely laid section 
of masonry, composed of large, rough stones in the lower courses, upon 
which smaller, roughly hewn stones are built. It is probable, from the 
large amount of débris in the neighborhood, that formerly there were 
rows of single-story rooms in front of what are now the standing walls, 
but the character of their architecture is difficult to determine with cer- 
tainty. Their foundations, although partially covered, are not wholly 
concealed. 
The front wall of inclosure B is pierced by three openings, the largest 
of which is a square passageway into the adjoining room, and is situ- 
ated in the middle of the curved wall. A wooden lintel, which had been 
well hewn with stone implements, still remains in place above this 
passageway, and under it the visitor passes through a low opening 
which has the appearance of having been once a doorway. Above this 
entrance, on each side, in the wall, is a square hole, which originally 
may have been the points of support of floor beams. Formerly, like 
wise, there was a large square opening above the middle passageway, 
but this has been closed with masonry, leaving in place the wooden 
beam which once supported the wall above. The upper edge of the 
front wall of inclosure B is level, and is but little broken except in two 
places, where there are notches, one above each of the square holes 
