MORGAN.) HOUSES SAFE AGAINST INDIAN ASSAULT. 213 
There is a direct connection in principle between the platform eleva- 
tions inclosing a large square on which the High Bank Pueblo was con- 
structed, and the pyramidal platforms in Yucatan, smaller in diameter but 
higher in elevation, upon which were erected the most artistic houses con- 
structed by the American aborigines. In the latter cases the central area 
rises to the common level of the embankments upon which the houses were 
constructed. The former has the security gained by a house-site above 
the level of the surrounding ground; and it represents about all the 
advance made by the Village Indians in the art of war above the tribes in 
a lower condition of barbarism. They placed their houses and homes in a 
position unassailable by the methods of Indian warfare. 
There is some diversity, as would be expected, in the size of the 
squares inclosed by these embankments. They range from four hundred 
and fifty to seventeen hundred feet, the majority measuring between eight 
hundred and fifty and a thousand feet. Gateways are usually found at the 
four angles and at the center of each side. A comparison of the dimen- 
sions of twenty of these squares, figured in the ‘Ancient Monuments of 
the Mississippi Valley,” gives for the average nine hundred and thirty-seven 
feet. The aggregate length of the embankments shown in Fig. 46 is three 
thousand six hundred feet, which, at an average of ten feet for each apart- 
ment, would give three hundred and sixty upon each side of the passage 
way, or seven hundred and twenty in all. From this number should be 
deducted such as were used for storage, for doorways, and for public uses. 
Allowing two apartments for each family of five persons, the High Bank 
Pueblo would have accommodated from fifteen hundred to two thousand 
persons, living in the fashion of Indians, which is about the number of an 
average pueblo of the Village Indians. This result may be strengthened 
by comparing houses of existing Indian tribes. The Seneca-Iroquois vil- 
lage of Tiotohatton, two centuries ago, was estimated at a hundred and 
twenty houses. Taking the number at one hundred, with an average 
length of fifty feet, and it would give a lineal length of house-room of five 
thousand feet. It was the largest of the Seneca, and the largest of the 
Iroquois villages, and contained about two thousand inhabitants. A simi- 
lar result is obtained by another comparison. The aggregate length of the 
