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latter. Two sections (fig. 1, A, B) may be distinguished in the 

 arrangement of mounds in the village; one may bo known as the 

 western and the other as the eastern division. 



The highest and most conspicuous mound of the western section 

 (A) is referred to by Professor Holmes as the "Upper House." 

 Surface characteristics now indicate that this is the remains of a 

 compact rectangular building, with circular kivas and domiciliary 

 rooms of different shapes, the arrangement of which can not be dc- 



Fig. 1.— Ground plan of Azto? Spring Ruin. 



tcrmined without extensive excavations. The plan of this pueblo 

 published by Holmes 1 shows two large and one small depression, 

 indicating peripheral rectangular chambers surrounded by walls of 



rectangular rooms. 



The author interprets the depressions, K, as kivas, but supposes 

 that they were not rectangular as figured by Holmes, but circular, 

 surrounded on all four sides by square secular chambers, the "Upper 

 House" being formed by the consolidation of several units of the pure 

 pueblo type. Although Aztec Spring Ruin is now much mutilated 



i Op. cit., pi. xl. 



