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BLACK FALLS RUINS 



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filled with fallen stones. The cemetery of this pueblo lies west of 

 the ruin, where there are also remains of walls. 



Small ruins may be seen near the road from group A to group B, 

 a few miles to the left. Their walls are in good condition, but no 

 peculiar features were observed. 



Group B 



The largest of all the ruins in the Black falls cluster, and one which 

 bears evidence of ha^•ing been inhabited for a considerable time, lies 

 about 35 miles northeast of Flagstaff and about 8 miles from the 

 Little Colorado. This structure is built on a ridge of sandstone 

 extending in a noi-theast-southwest direction, and consists of two 

 large buildings of moderate elevation (plates xii-xvi, figure 6). On 

 each side the ridge slopes graduallj- to a depression, the talus on the 



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east covering a series of rooms, while on the west side, where the 

 slope is more abrupt, no rooms were discov^ered. The ruin is divided 

 into two sections connected by rows of one-stoiy rooms, the walls of 

 which have fallen. Remains of a great number of roof and floor 

 beams are still scattered throughout the debris. These beams are 

 larger than those in any other ruin of the same size known to the 

 authoi-. 



It is diffieult to determine the original number of rooms in the first 

 section of this ruin, as the tops of the walls have fallen, filling the 

 chambers with debris. How many basal rooms were buried in the 

 talus of fallen walls at the base of the mesa on the eastern side could 

 not be discovered. Room a of this section (see figure 7) is elevated 

 on a rockj- base about 10 feet high. The chamber is small, and its 

 walls have fallen on two sides. The debris has been cleared out of 

 this room by Mr Doney, who found in it the desiccated remains of 

 an infant wrapped in four well-preserved cotton blankets. 



