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already mentioned. It is probable that these depressions were intended 
for the ends of the beams which once supported a combined roof and 
floor. 
On the perpendicular wall which forms the rear of inclosure B, many 
feet above the top of the standing front walls, there are several picto- 
graphs of Apache origin. The height of these above the level of the 
former rvof would appear to indicate the existence of a third story, for . 
the hands which drew them must have been at least 15 feet above the 
present top of the standing wall. 
The front of C is curved like that of inclosure B, and is much broken 
near the foundations, where there is a passageway. There is a small 
hole on each side of a middle line, as in B, situated at about the same 
level as the floor, indicating the former position of a beam. Within 
the ruin there is a well-made partition separating inclosures B and C. 
The size of room D is much less than that of B or C, but, with the 
exception of a section at the left, the front wall has fallen. The part 
which remains upright, however, stands like a pinnacle, unconnected 
with the face of the cliff or with the second-story wall of inclosure C. It 
1s about 20 feet in height, and possibly its altitude appears greater than 
it really is from the fact that its foundations rest upon a bowlder nearly 
six feet high (plate cx), 
The foundations of rooms H# and F (plate c) are built on a lower 
level than those of B and C or D, and their front walls, which are really 
low, are helped out by similar bowlders, which serve as foundations. 
The indications are that both these inclosures were originally one story 
in height, forming a wing to the central section of the ruin, which 
had an additional tier of rooms. There is an entrance to Ff at the ex- 
treme left, and the whole room was lower than the floor of the lower 
stories of B, C, and D. 
The most conspicuous pictograph on the cliff above Ruin 1 of Palatki, 
is a circular white figure, seen in the accompanying illustration. This 
pictograph is situated directly above the first room on the right, A, and 
was apparently made with chalk, so elevated that at present it is far 
above the reach of a person standing on any of the walls. From its 
general character I am led to believe that it was made by the Apache 
and not by the builders of the pueblo. 
There were no names of white visitors anywhere on the walls of 
Palatki, which, so far as it goes, affords substantial support of my 
belief that we were the first white men to visit this ruin. While it can 
not be positively asserted that we were the original discoverers of this 
interesting building, there is no doubt that I was the first to describe 
it and to call attention to its highly characteristic architectural plan. 
The walls of Palatki are not so massive as those of the neighboring 
Honanki, and the number of rooms in both ruins which form Palatki 
is much smaller. Hach of these components probably housed not more 
than a few families, while several phvatries could readily be accommo- 
dated in Honanki. 
