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of over 6 feet. We have no comparative data as to floor levels in 62 

 and 70 but that in 266, with its underfloor cists, was just 5 feet below 

 a single southwest door whose sill height in Room 62 is given as 9 

 inches or, possibly, 21 inches (Pepper, ibid., pp. 233, 236). 



Room 266 lies immediately east, or northeast, of 62 and 70; the 

 wall between, as seen from 266, is of good second-type masonry 

 and so, too, is the near two-thirds of its northwest side as the latter 

 continues west to the outside curve of Room 76. The remainder 

 of that northwest wall is of third-type construction. 



From the open north door of Room 62 the evidence of building and 

 rebuilding in Room 70 seemed particularly puzzling and I am not 

 sure my interpretation of the published record is entirely accurate. 

 Apparently guided by depth alone, Pepper believed the lower part, 

 the "first floor" as he called it (ibid., p. 256), had been built by "the 

 old people." Plis "old people," however, elsewhere in his field notes 

 recognizable as my Old Bonitians, are here readily identified by their 

 distinctive masonry as early Late Bonitians. As seen in unpublished 

 Hyde negative 245 (herein, pi. 32, right), the lowest wall in Room 70 

 is of second-type masonry with a rectangular door in the middle. 

 Eventually that wall was razed approximately at lintel level and a 

 new floor laid ; a cruder, foundation-like stonework of salvaged rock 

 was substituted at left and right and plastered as though for occu- 

 pancy. A square doorway at new-floor level, its inset jambs unrealis- 

 tically slanted outward to support a doorslab placed from within, 

 connected with Room 99, adjoining. 



That floor-level door is our introduction to 99, but, with the 

 previously unpublished Hyde print of Room 70 in hand, it seems de- 

 sirable to note several architectural features that are no longer visi- 

 ble: (1) a beam hole in the rebuilt west half of the north wall 

 and lesser timbers protruding from the left evidence a second-story 

 floor a few inches below the log-supported, third-type northeast 

 comer wall (which had collapsed prior to 1921) ; (2) that corner 

 wall, the unhanded masonry opposite, and the built-in section between, 

 apparently were all parts of a Late Bonitian room at the second-story 

 level, one angle of which projected above the northwest corner of 

 Room 62 (Pepper, ibid., fig. 98) ; (3) the rectangular doorway in the 

 partially razed second-type north wall of Room 70 was blocked from 

 the other side by the abutting southwest wall and foundation of 

 third-type Room 99. Construction of these latter, therefore, obviously 

 prompted the successive revisions of Room 70. 



Pepper's notes on Room 99 (ibid., pp. 313-316) leave little to be 



