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extent of the accommodations such an edifice would afford, especially in 
Indian life, where a married pair and their children are found in a smaller 
space than one of these apartments supplied. The plan shows one hun- 
dred and seventy-five apartments in the ground story; one hundred and 
thirty-four in the second; one hundred and thirteen in the third; sixty in 
the fourth, and twenty-four in the fifth—making an aggregate of five hun- 
dred and six apartments. It is not probable that the several stories were 
carried up symmetrically, which would involve a diminution of some of 
the rooms in the upper stories. This pueblo is constructed of the same 
materials as those before named. ‘The circular estufas,” Lieutenant Simp- 
son remarks, “of which there are six in number, have a greater depth than 
any we have seen, and differ from them also in exhibiting more stories, one 
of them certainly showing two, and possibly three, the lowest one appear- 
ing to be almost covered up with débris.” 
This room, Fig. 34, is described by Lieutenant Simpson, but at the time 
of Mr. Jackson’s visit he was unable to find it. ‘‘In the northwest corner of 
the ruins,” Lieutenant Simpson remarks, ‘‘we found a room in an almost per- 
fect state of preservation. * * * This room is fourteen by seven and a 
half feet in plan, and ten feet in elevation. It has an outside doorway, three 
and a half feet high by two and a quarter wide, and one at its west end, 
leading into the adjoining room, two feet wide, and at present, on account 
of rubbish, only two and a half feet high. The stone walls still have their 
plaster upon them in a tolerable state of preservation. In the south wall 
is a recess or niche, three feet two inches high by four feet five inches wide 
by four deep. Its position and size naturally suggested the idea that it 
might have been a fire-place, but if so, the smoke must have returned to 
the room, as there was no chimney outlet for it. In addition to this large 
recess, there were three smaller ones in the same wall. The ceiling showed 
two main beams, laid transversely; on these, longitudinally, were a num- 
ber of smaller ones in juxtaposition, the ends being tied together by a 
species of wooden fibre, and the interstices chinked in with small stones; on 
these, again, transversely, in cloce contact, was a kind of lathing of the 
odor and appearance of cedar, all in a good state of preservation.”? When 
' Lieutenant Simpson’s Report, p. 63. 
