OECAIE Di hs Vie 
RUINS OF HOUSES OF THE SEDENTARY INDIANS OF THE SAN JUAN 
RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES—CONTINUED. 
About sixty miles north of the pueblos on the Chaco, and in the valley 
of the Animas River, is a cluster of stone pueblos, very. similar to the 
former. These I visited in 1878. The valley is broad at this point, and for 
some miles above and below to its mouth. At the time of our visit (July 
22) the river was a broad stream, carrying a large volume of water. We 
followed down the river from the point of its rise in the dividing range, 
where it was a mere brook, nearly the whole distance through Silverton to 
Animas City. The constant accession of mountain streams, and the rapid 
descent of its bed, soon changed it into a noisy and dashing stream About 
twenty miles above Animas City we were compelled to ascend to the top of 
the bordering mountains to avoid the narrow canon below, which was im- 
passable; and in descending from Animas City to visit these pueblos we 
crossed over to the La Plata Valley, and after passing through this valley 
we recrossed to the Animas Valley to avoid similar cations also impassable. 
The supply of water for irrigation at the pueblo was abundant. 
The pueblo of which the ground? plan is shown, Fig. 40, is one of four 
situated within the extent of one mile on the west side of the Animas River 
in New Mexico, about twelve miles above its mouth. Besides these four, 
there are five other smaller ruins of inferior structures within the same area. 
This pueblo was five or perhaps six stories high, consisting of a main build- 
ing three hundred and sixty-eight feet long, and two wings two hundred 
and seventy feet long, measured along the external wall on the right and 
left sides, and one hundred and ninety-nine feet measured along the inside 
1 The engravings of Figs. 40, 41, and 41a, were kindly loaned by Mr. F. W. Putnam of the Pea- 
body Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 
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