422 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
In this Pecos village there were not less than 1000 rooms, and probably many 
more. I could readily count two hundred rooms at the top, and from four to six 
stories on the sides of the bluff. The whole group seemed to consist of two ir- 
regular circles, the larger of which extended partially around the end of a rocky 
bluff about thirty feet high above the bare rock just described, rising two stories 
above its summit and completing the circle or oval upon the surface of the bluff. 
This circle is two hundred and twenty-five feet across in one direction, say east 
and west, and seventy in the other, with one opening or passage, say sixteen feet 
wide, leading down the face of the bluff on the northern side, and one into the 
inclosure on the east. 
This area contains two basin shaped, stone-lined reservoirs, probably for wa- 
ter, twenty-five feet in diameter and more than six feet deep, (2) as was proven by 
digging into them to that depth without finding the bottom of the stone-lining. 
They are filled with earth to within some three or four feet of the surface. Out- 
side of the circle of huts, at the foot of the bluff on the north side, but inside of 
the stone wall above named, are two similar stone-lined, basin shaped reservoirs, six- 
teen feet in diameter and filled within two or three feet of the surface. (3.) One of 
these is on each side of the passage-way before mentioned. A very singular thing 
is, that the western of these reservoirs seems to be connected with one of those in- 
side, by an aqueduct or conductor, constructed wholly of cement made of ashes 
and some other substance, possibly lime, though no lime or cement of any kind 
is found in any other part of the works. 
This aqueduct is exposed at the margin of the reservoir nearest the bluff and 
is at least two feet in diameter, with walls not less than eighteen or twenty inches 
»in thickness. It was constructed by making lumps and blocks of the cement, 
some rounded and some flat, varying from four to ten inches in diameter and lay- 
ing them upon each other like bricks and fastening them together with layers of 
similar cement, and finally smoothing the whole over with a coating of the same. 
I had no implement but an old hatchet, and could do but little in the way of ex- 
cavating this aqueduct, and may have been mistaken as to its object and purpose, 
but from its locality and shape, as disclosed by my cutting into it some two feet 
or more, I think I am correct. 
Adjoining the inclosure above described on the east, is a smail one, also built 
around with similar stone huts, two stories high, which is about sixty by seventy 
feet in diameter and has two gateways, one to the north-east and the other to the 
south-east., each ten feet wide and thirty-six feet long. To the southward of both 
of these inclosures and close to the rocky declivity, which is bold and command- 
ing, are several remains of walls and buildings, nothing being left but the foundations 
and some loose rock. ‘The first or western of these is 24x58 feet, the second 
24x27, and the third 10x30. Still further east and on the extreme point of the 
rock is a triangular shaped inclosure 54x69, the third side being made by the wall 
on the edge of the bluff. From the situation of these (5), especially the last nam- 
ed, they were evidently for the purposes of defense and outlook. 
