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the sill of the door is still in place. The overhang under which rooms 

 4 and 5 are located, allows a height of about three feet and a half, 

 while room 6 is only about three feet in height. Figure 53 shows the 

 walls of room 6. 



What is designated here as room 7, is strictly conjectural, for the 

 falling of the great masses of rock from above, has almost completely 

 obliterated the building at this point. There is sufficient evidence 

 left, however, to clearly indicate that one or more rooms originally 

 existed at this point. It is probable that these outer rooms, were the 



Fig. 53. — Room No. 6, Upper Ribbon Falls cliff ruin. 



living quarters of the inhabitants, while the small low rooms at the 

 rear, formed by walling up this natural crevice, and which are still 

 preserved, were undoubtedly the storage rooms, connected with the 

 house. 



Room 8 is about four by three feet by three feet in height. The 

 south wall of this room is still about two feet in height and remains 

 of mortar show where a flat roof formerly covered the room, as in the 

 case of room 9, where this roof is still intact. 



Room 9 is about three by two and a half feet in ground plan and 

 two and a half feet in height at the front, sloping back to only about 



