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these rooms. All of them were at 
least two stories high; some were 
three. The walls in this portion 
are generally 2 feet or more thick 
and exceptionally wellconstructed. 
Its eastern end is still standing to 
a height of three stories, and car- 
ries a roof intact, giving a tower- 
like effect to that portion. Orvrigin- 
ally this portion rose but one story 
above the other rooms. Through- 
out nearly all its length the front 
wall shows part of the upper story, 
which is also marked on the cliff 
wall by a thin wash of clay, in the 
saine manner as in the Casa Blanca 
ruin. The two rooms west of the 
tower were surmounted by a single 
largeroom. The cliff wallis coated 
with a thin wash of yellowish clay, 
and no mark of a cross wall or par- 
tition can be seen upon it. There 
are no openings between the three 
eastern rooms on the ground floor. 
The first room to the west of the 
tower has a square chimney-like 
shaft, and a niche or alcove con- 
nected with it. The second room 
also has a niche and a rounded 
shaft. The third room has neither 
niche nor shaft. 
The front wall was exceptionally 
heavy, but the upper portion has 
fallen inward, forming a heavy 
mass of débris against it. The 
east and south sides of the tower, 
for about 5 feet of its height, are 
decorated by inlaying small stones 
1 to 2 inches long and half an ineh 
thick. Thesamedecoration occurs 
at intervals down the front wall, 
but irregularly. This feature is 
not chinking, such as has been de- 
seribed, and has no constructive 
value, but is purely decorative. 
Back of the rooms west of the tower 
there are some old pictographs on 
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