FEWKES] 



CAVATE RUINS NEAR FLAGSTAFF 



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Room B is larger than room A, being about li! feet square. It eom- 

 muuicates witli room a by a broken doorway, and has an opening 

 through the roof. The floor is somewhat lower than that of A. A 

 recess (d) on one side of this room also communicates with the out- 

 side by a small opening wliich l)ears the same relation to room B that 

 the flue F does to room A. 



Room C is an oblong, irregular, subterranean chamber, 5 by 7 feet, 

 with passageways into rooms .\ and B. The opening into A is almost 

 perfectly square, that into B less regular. Its floor is several feet 

 lower than the floors of the two other large rooms in this clustei*. 

 There are evidences of claj' plastering in several places, and api>ar- 



FiG. 'S. Plan of an " Old cave " dwelling. 



ently the floor, walls, passagewaj^s, and possibly the roof, were 

 smoothly finished. The plastering has, however, fallen, exposing the 

 rough lava corners. 



New Caves 



The mountain in which the Xew caves occur is about 3 miles west 

 of Turkey tanks, or about 12 miles east of Flagstaff. This height is 

 interesting from a geological point of view, it being a section of the 

 rim of an old crater, as may be seen from its summit. The remain- 

 ing f)ortion of the crater rim, that on the eastern side, has been 

 eroded into hills, the relation of which to the crater is recognized 

 ouly by their positions. The highest part of the rim, that in which 

 the caves are found, is the western wall of the crater, which, with an 

 adjacent southern section, forms a crescent connected by a ridge of 

 less altitude. The more northern of these elevations is the higher, 

 and the cavate rooms occur on its eastern side. 



