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Other, parallel with it, almost divides the space iu halves. This is the 

 part of the ruin which one enters first after climbing up the talus of 

 fallen rocks. Room D is large, with well-preserved walls i or 5 feet 

 high, and with a projecting platform on one side, on which only 

 obscure indications of artificial structures may be detected. 



Room F is rather small, with walls built over a projecting platform, 

 resembling from below a bow window. Room E is well constructed; 

 it contains considerable debris, and its sides are continuous with the 

 perpendicular wall of the mesa. At the base of the cliff, just 1>elow 

 room E, there is a low, almost circular wall, forming an inclosure 

 somewhat similar to the basal rooms of some of the ruins already 

 described. Although in general its architecture does not differ from 

 that of many other rectangular ruins previously discussed, the over- 

 hanging platform gives a unique appearance to the structure. About 

 300 feet eastward were noted the edges of flat stones which indicate 

 burial cysts. The whole length of this ruin is 46 feet, and the width, 

 including the jirojections at F and G, 21 feet. The sizes of different 

 rooms measured were: 



Room B, 10 feet 8 inches by 9 feet 10 inches. 



R9om D, 1.1 feet i inches by 10 feet 5 inches. 



Room E. 10 feet by 5 feet 10 inches. 



The following bearings were taken from this ruin : 

 Group c. ruin a, bears north 13' east. 

 Mount Agassiz bears soiith 48° west. 

 Schiiltze's spring bears south 50° west. 



RUINS NEAR HONANl'S HOUSE AT BURRO SPRING 



The ITopi Indian llonani declared that there was a large ruin on 

 the mesa not far from his house at Burro spring. This ruin, how- 

 ever, was not visited, as Honani was away when the author passed 

 through that country. There is a legend that some of the clans of 

 Shumopovi once lived at this point, which is apparently on the line 

 of migration from the ruins on the Little Colorado to the Middle 

 mesa of Tusayan." llonani is a prominent man in Shumopovi, which 

 fact may account for his occupation of land near the Burro spring. 



The preceding descrijition will give a general idea of the ruins in 

 this section. It is not possible to compare them with the ruins of 

 Homolobi, where most of the walls have disapjieared or have so fallen 

 as to render the original plan unrecognizable. The difference in 

 building material employed in the construction of the pueblos on 

 Chevlon fork of Little Colorado river must have imparted a some- 

 what different character to the buildings erected there, but there is 



•a The simple existence of a jrermanent spring of potable water in this part of Arizona may be 

 taken as indicative of ruins in its immediate Ticinity, and when such a spring lies on or near an 

 old trail of migration, evidence of former settlements can not be difficult to find. Both Big 

 Burro and Little Burro springs lie on the pathway of migrations of the southern Hopi clans in 

 their journey from Homolobi. and were halting places for longer or shorter periods. 



