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above the stream bed. It is just below the ruin described and illus- 
trated on page 144 (figure 48), and hardly 20 feet distant from it, and 
yet it does not appear to have been con- 
nected with it. It consists of a single large 
room, 20 feet long by 113 feet wide outside, 
and the site commands an extensive pros- 
pect over bottom lands on both sides of the 
canyon, and above, but the only opening in 
the wall on that side is a little peephole 6 
inches square and 2 feet from the ground. 
This is sufficient, however, to command nearly 
the whole outiook. There is a doorway on 
the eastern side, one side of which, fairly well finished, remains. There 
was apparently no other opening, unless one existed on the westeru 
side, where, in the center, the wall is broken down to within 2 feet of 
the ground. Along the western side of the room, at the present ground 
surface, there are remains of a bench about a foot wide; the eastern 
side is covered above this level. 
The masonry is very rough and chinked only with large stones. The 
interior is roughly plastered in places, and small pieces of stone are 
stuck on flat. The corners are rounded. Externally the masonry has 

No. 45. 


Fie, 64—Rectangular single room. 
the appearance of stones laid without mortar, like a Navaho stone 
corral, and were it not for the occurrence of other similar remains, it 
might be regarded as of Navaho or white man’s construction, as the size, 
