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considerable excavation. If it were a kiva, which I very much doubt, 
it is an exception among the Verde valley ruins, where no true kiva 
has yet been detected.' 
Following h there is an inclosure which originally may have been a 
habitable room, as indicated by the well-constructed front wall, but it is 
so filled with large stones that it is difficult to examine its interior. On 
one side the wall, which is at right angles to the face of the cliff, is 10 
feet high, and the front wall follows the surface of a huge bowlder 
which serves as its foundation. 
Room 7 is clearly defined, and is in part inclosed by a large rock, on 
top of which there still remains a fragment of a portion of the front 
wall. A spur of masonry connects this bowlder with the face of the cliff, 
indicating all that remains of the former division between rooms 7 andj. 
Aun offshoot from this bowlder, in the form of a wall 10 feet high, for- 
metly inclosed one side of a room. In the rear of chamber j there are 
found two receptacles or spaces left between the rear wall and the face 
_ of the cliff, while the remaining wall, which is 10 feet high, is a good 
specimen of pueblo masonry. 
The two side walls of room k are well preserved, but the chamber 
resembles the others of the series in the absence of a front wall. In 
this room, however, there remains what.may have been the fragment of 
a rear wall parallel with the face of the cliff. This room has also a 
small cist of masonry in one corner, which calls to mind certain sealed 
cavities in the cavate dwellings. 
The two side walls of m and n are respectively eight and ten feet high. 
There is nothing exceptional in the standing walls of room 0, one of 
which, five feet in altitude, still remains erect. Room p has a remnant 
of a rear wall plastered to the face of the cliff. 
Room r (plate CII) is a finely preserved chamber, with lateral walls 
20 feet high, of well-constructed masonry, that in the rear, through 
which there is an opening leading into a dark chamber, occupying the 
space between it and the cliff. It is braced by connecting walls at 
right angles to the face of the solid rock. 
At s, the face of the cliff forms a rear wall of the room, and one of 
the side walls is fully 20 feet high. The points of insertion of the 
flooring are well shown, about 10 feet from the ground, proving that 
the ruin at this point was at least two stories high. 
Two walled inclosures, one within the other, characterize room v. 
On the cliff above it there is a series of simple pictographs, consisting 
of short parallel lines pecked into the rock, and are probably of Apache 
origin, This room closes the second series, along the whole length of 
which, in front of the lateral walls which mark different chambers, 
there are, at intervals, piles of débris, which enabled an approximate 
'The absence of kivas in the ruins of the Verde has been commented on by Mindeleff, and has 
likewise been found to be characteristic of the cliff houses on the upper courses of the other tribu- 
taries of Gila and Salado rivers. The round kiya appears to be confined to the middle and eastern 
ruins of the pueblo area, and are very numerous in the ruins of San Juan valley. 
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