MORGAN, ] DESCRIPTION OF RUINS. 1rd) 
urements of the second row of apartments, as shown in the diagram, were 
from the standing walls, and were made in the second story. 
The first or basement story is filled up with the rubbish of the fallen 
walls, ceilings, and floors, in the second row of apartments named. In 
some cases they are full above the line of the original ceilings; in others 
nearly up to them. The main ceiling beams were of yellow cedar from 
eight to twelve inches in diameter, usually three and four in number, and 
were placed across the narrow way of the room. Stubs of these beams 
still remain in the walls parallel with the court. Just above the line of 
these beams in the other two walls were the ends of a row of poles about 
four inches in diameter, which passed transversely across the cedar beams. 
Stubs of these poles, broken off short at the line of the walls, still remain 
in place. Upon these poles were originally thin pieces of split cedar limbs, 
and then the floor of adobe mortar, four or five inches thick. We thus get 
the position and height of the floor of the first and second stories, which 
were about nine feet six inches for the ground story, and nine feet for the 
second story. 
The external wall of the main building has fallen the entire length of 
the structure. As these ruins are resorted to by the few settlers in the 
valley as a stone quarry to obtain stone for foundations to their houses and 
barns, and for stoning up their wells, the loose material is being gradually 
removed; and when the standing walls are more convenient to take they 
will be removed also. One farmer told me he thought that one quarter of 
the accessible material of this and the adjacent stone pueblo had already 
been removed. It is to be hoped that the number of these settlers inclined 
to Vandalism will not increase. 
A part of the partition walls which connected the outside wall with the 
next parallel wall is still standing where the wall last named rises above the 
second story. They stand out for three or four feet like buttresses against 
the wall, and show that the masonry of the parallel and transverse walls was 
articulated, that the partition walls were continuous from front to rear, and 
that the walls of the several stories rested upon each other. Al! this is seen 
by a bare inspection of the walls as they now stand. 
The masonry itself is the chief matter of interest in these structures. 
