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BLOCKED OPENINGS. 



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stories liigli and that the wall remains above the second roof level 

 represent a low parapet. 



Ill the second story, or middle room of the middle tier, there were 

 no openings except the doorway in the eastern wall and two small 

 orifices in the western wall. In the middle of this wall there is a niche 

 about IS inches below the roof, and a foot below this is a round-cornered 

 opening measuring about 7 by 8 inches extending through the wall. 

 This opening was on a level with another in the western wall of the 

 western room, and commanded a far-reaching though contracted view 

 toward the west. Below and a little northward is a similar though 

 somewhat larger opening corresponding to an opening in the western 

 wall of the western room. 



MIDDLE ROOM. 



East Wall . 



Flu. Li3U. — Eloviitions of walls, middle rtmm. 



The upper doorway in the western wall of the western room is much 

 broken out, but the top can still be traced. It was 4 feet 5J inches lu 

 height and 1 foot 11 inches wide at top. The opening was blocked 

 by solid masonry built into it and completely filling it up to within 1»» 

 inches of the top. This upper space, which is on a level with the upper 

 hole in the middle room, seems to have been purposely left to allow an 

 outlook from that room. The filling block is level on top and flush 

 with the wall inside and out. At a height of 12 inches above the 

 lower edge of the floor beams below it, and perhaps 3 inches above the 

 floor, is the lower edge of a roughly square opening a foot across, cut 



