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is ten or twelve feet deep. There are, no doubt, rooms with a portion of 
the walls still standing covered with rubbish, the removal of which would 
reveal a considerable portion of the original ground-plan. 
A short distance below the pueblos last named is another cluster of the 
same number of pueblos, and much in the same condition; and upon rising 
ground near the foot of the bluff, on the east side of the valley, there are, 
as Mr. Mitchell informed me, the ruins of several pueblos of stone. He 
also informed me that similar ruins were to be found here and there in the 
valley to the San Juan. Four miles westerly, near the ranch of Mr. Shirt, 
are the ruins of another large stone pueblo, together with an Indian ceme- 
tery, where each grave is marked by a border of flat stones set leyel with the 
ground in the form of a parallelogram eight feet by four feet. Near the 
cluster of nine pueblos shown in the figure are found strewn on the ground 
numerous fragments of pottery of high grade in the ornamentation, and 
small arrow-heads of flint, quartz, and chalcedony delicately formed, and 
small knife-blades with convex and serrated edges in considerable numbers. 
This is an immense ruin with small portions of the walls still standing, 
particularly of the round 
tower of stone of three 
concentric walls, incor- 
porated in the structure, 
and a few chambers in 
the north end of the main 
building. The round 
tower is still standing 
nearly to the height of 
Fia. 45.—Outline plan of a stone pueblo near the natok Ute ~ the first sae In its 
Mountain. present condition it was 
impossible to make a ground-plan showing the several chambers, or to 
determine with certainty which side was the front of the structure, assum- 
ing that it was constructed in the terraced form, It is situated upon a ver- 
tical bluff of yellowish sandstone rock about twenty feet high, and about 
four miles below Mr. Mitchell’s ranch in the direction of the Ute Mountain 
and near its northeastern base. The bluff is broken through to the bottom 
