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were exposed, each bearing" fireplaces and other remains of habita- 

 tions. Careful examination of the artifacts from these superimposed 

 levels failed, however, to show that their inhabitants were other 

 than those who had occupied the lower houses or that any consider- 

 able period of time had elapsed between the occu])ancy of the lowest 

 and the uppermost levels. 



Similar dwellings were unearthed near Paragonah, in Iron County. 

 Owing' to lack of time no effort was made to study the houses 

 concealed by the larger mounds ; the four small elevations examined 

 contained only individual rooms which differed but little from those 



Fk;. 82. — Small cliff-village in Cottonwuod Canyon, near Kanab, L'tah. 



near I'eaver City. Twenty years ago more than loo mounds were 

 counted at this place ; today, only a few remain, the others having" 

 been recently razed and the artifacts they contained scattered over 

 the newly plowed fields. While it is impossible to check this destruc- 

 tion, since the mounds are upon privately owned land, it is not yet 

 too late to determine the architectural peculiarities of the priniitive 

 houses over which the mounds have accumulated and to gauge the 

 degree of culture to which the ancient inhabitants had attained. 



One day was spent near St. George, in the southwestern corner 

 of the State, a region which received much attention from Dr. Edward 

 Palmer, of the National Museum, between the years 1870 and 1876. 

 The vast increase in the number of cultivated acres has brought about 

 the destruction of most of the formerly abundant archeological 

 remains, onlv a few small and isolated house sites being now visible. 



