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the upper part of the Cafion del Alamo, are fairly preserved. The upper 

 part of that gorge [Canon del Alamo] is wooded, and the caves were thus 

 somewhat sheltered. They offer nothing worthy of special mention, and do 

 not compare in numbers with the settlement at the Rito [28:12]. The Queres 

 [Keresans] say that these caves also are ' probably ' the work of their ancestors.' 



The location of the place P(i''^ty,yw3RJog.e, which gives the can- 

 yon it.s Tewa name, was not known to any of the informants. 

 [See [28:21], [28:22], [28:23], and pueblo ruin in the dell at the 

 mouth of Alamo Canyon [28 : unlocated], page 453. 

 [28:21] (1) Eng. Hondo Canyon. (<Span.). =Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Canon Hondo, Canada Honda 'deep canj^on' 'deep 

 cafiada'. "(Canada Honda "'.^ 



This is a large and deep southern tributary- of Alamo Canyon 

 [28:20]. Doctor Hewett states that it enters Alamo Canyon 

 about a quai-ter of a mile from the mouth of the latter. See ex- 

 cerpts from Bandelier under [28:20] (4). See also [28:22]. 

 [28:22] Dell at the mouth of Alamo Canyon [28:20]. 



At the foot of the Chapero [28:19], a deep, narrow gorge, the Canon del 

 Rito [28:17?], comes in from the northwest. The Jlesa del Rito [28:16] 

 bounds it on the north and northeast, and the high and narrow plateau called 

 Potrero del Alamo [28:23] (in Queres [Keresan], Uish-ka Tit-yi Han-at) on 

 the west and southwest. This gorge [28:17?] empties into a little basin on 

 the west bank of the Rio Grande, and as low as the level of that stream. 

 From this basin, the geological features of the surrounding heights can be 

 very clearly seen. The cliffs near the stream are of dark-hued trap, basalt, 

 and lava, forming a narrow strip along the river . . . while all the rocks 

 west of it are of light-colored pumice and tufa. The basin is not more than three 

 quarters of a mile in diameter, and groves of cottonwood trees grow on its fer- 

 tile soil. A small ruin [Pueblo ruin in the dell at the mouth of Alamo Canyon 

 [28:unlocated]] . . . From this basin the cliffs surrounding it on three sides 

 rise to towering heights, and the Potrero del Alamo [28:23] especially pre- 

 sents a grand appearance. On the east side of the Rio Grande the frowning 

 walls of the Caja del Rio loom up, with their shaggy crests of lava and 

 basaltic rock ... As we look into the mouths of the Canon del Alamo 

 [28:20] and of the Canada Honda [28:21], from the little bottom at the foot 

 of the Chapero [28:19], they open like dark clefts of great depth between 

 the cliffs of the lofty mesas. On the south a crest, perhaps a thousand feet 

 high, rises above the western bank of tlie river, crowned by battlements of 

 basalt. This is the Mesa Prieta [28:24], or Kom-asa-na Ko-te, from which a 

 steep slope descends covered with volcanic debris, hard and soft. Up this 

 slope toils the almost undistinguishable trail to Cochiti.' 



Doctor Hewett states that Alamo Canyon [28:20] and Hondo 

 Canyon [28:21] unite about a quarter of a mile above the con- 

 fluence with the Rio Grande, and form a little bottom. The 

 writer passed what is believed to be this dell in walking down the 

 west bank of the Rio Grande. See [28:20], [28:21], [28:24], and 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 156, 1892. ^ ibid., pp. 148-150. 



2Ibid., pp. 149, 156. 



