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GROUND PLANS. 



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standing they must Lave been couspicuous landmarks. The masonry 

 of all consists of flat bowlders, selected doubtless from the river bed, 

 or jjerhaps sometimes quarried from the terraces, which themselves 

 contain large numbers of river bowlders. In genei-al appearance and 

 in plan these ruins resemble the ruin next to be described, situated 

 near the mouth of the East Verde. 



On the southern side of the East Verde, half a mile above its mouth, 

 a small creek comes in from the south, probably dry throughout most 

 of the year; and on a prom(mtory or point of land left by this creek a 

 small ruin occurs. It is similar in j^lan and in character of masonry 



Fig. 280.— Ground plan of ruin at mouth of the East Verde. 



to those just described, and differs from them only in that its site is 

 better adapted for defense, being protected on two sides by steep hills 

 or cliffs. The ground plan of this ruin is shown in figure 280, and 

 its general appearance in plate xiv, which also shows the character 

 of masonry. The village overlooked a large area of low bottom land 

 in the angle between the Verde and the East Verde, and is itself over- 

 looked by the foothills rising behind it to the high mesas forming part 

 of the Mazatzal mountains. 



The walls of this village were built of flat bowlders and slabs of lime- 

 stone, and there is now x)ractically no standing wall remaining. The 



