MORGAN.] RUINS OF PUEBLO WEGE.GI. 159 
30] is a section through a restoration of the pueblo from north to south, 
showing the manner in which the stories were probably terraced from the 
interior of the court outward. There is no positive evidence in any of these 
ruins that they were thus built, but this arrangement naturally suggests itself 
as being the only way in which light and ease of access to the inner rooms 
could be readily obtained. It is also auite certain from the character of 
the standing walls that they were not terraced symmetrically but irregularly, 
after the manner of the present pueblos. There is every reason to believe 
that the first story was, in every case, reached from the outside by ladders, 
the succeeding stories being also approached from the outside, either by 
ladders or by stone stairways, after the manner of the Moqui pueblos. 
There is no positive evidence to sustain any conjecture upon this point, as 
in every ruin the upper stories are so entirely dismantled that no indications 
of any sort of stairway have ever been found. The ground-floor was divided 
into smaller apartments than the second floor, many of the rooms, as shown 
in the plan, being in the lower story divided into two or three. It would 
be impossible to say how high this story had been, as the floor is covered 
to a considerable extent with stones from the fallen walls. The second floor 
was ten feet between joists, and the third somewhat less, about seven feet, 
as near as we could judge from below. — It is probable that there was a fourth 
story, but there is now very little evidence of it. Not a vestige of the 
vigas or other floor-timbers now remain. Some of the lintels over the doors 
or windows, composed of sticks of wood from one to two inches in thick- 
ness, laid close together, are now in fair preservation.”? 
Twelve miles down the canon from the Pueblo Pintado, are the ruins 
of the Pueblo Wegé-gi, Fig. 30. The main building is two hundred and 
twenty-four feet, and the length of each wing is one hundred and twenty 
feet, measured on the outside, but which would include the depth of the 
main building. It is remarkably symmetrical. The rooms, Mr. Jackson 
says, are small, the largest being eight by fourteen feet, and the smallest 
eight feet square, and the estufas are each thirty feet in diameter. It is built 
like the last pueblo ‘‘of small tabular pieces of sandstone, arranged with 
beautiful effect of regularity and finish.” 
' Jackson’s Report, p. 434. 
