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course of the walls generally had to be traced by following their 

 connection with other walls already discovered and excavated. 1 



1. Southwest Building 



Father Font wrote of Casa Grande as follows: "The house Casa 

 Grande forms an oblong square facing to the four cardinal points, 

 east, west, north, and south, and round about it there are ruins 

 indicating a fence or wall, which surrounded the house and other 

 buildings particularly in the corners, where it appears there has been 

 some edifice like an interior castle or watch-tower, for in the angle 



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Fig. 117. — Font's ground plan of Casa Grande 



which faces towards the southwest there stands a ruin with its 

 divisions and an upper story." This southwest building is undoubt- 

 edly one of the "other buildings" above referred to. 



1 It will be noticed that none of the walls of the main building are exactly 

 parallel to those of the compound, and that its plan is different from that of 

 any other house in the area enclosed. 



