136 THE CLIFF RUINS OF CANYON DE CHELLY © [£r.ann.16 
which only three rectangular rooms can be made out. The site here 
is almost covered with large bowlders. All these examples occur in 
Del Muerto. 
Figure 35 is a ground plan of a small ruin which oceurs at the point 
marked 36 0n the map. It is situated in a shallow cove at the head 
of the talus, 200 or 300 feet above the bottom, and is of comparatively 

Fic. 34—Plan of a ruin of three rooms. 
easy access. There is but a small amount of cultivable bottom land 
immediately below it, but it commands extensive areas on the opposite 
site of the canyon and in the lower part of a branch on that side. 
There are but few remains of rooms other than parts of two kivas, but 
there is no question that there was at one time a considerable number 
here. Both kivas had interior benches, and were of small size, plastered 

Fic. 35—Ground plan of a small ruin, with two kivas. 
in the interior. The masonry is fair to good. On the highest point of 
the bowlder shown on the right of the plan there is a fragment of com- 
pacted sheep dung and soil, which is now 6 feet above the ground. It 
isall that remains of a layer of some thickness which must have been 
deposited when the surface was filled up to or nearly to the top of the 
rock. Possibly there was a wall outside and only the intermediate 
space was filled. 
