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hanging' rock. Wo could not (Ictennino siiti.sfactoiily wlictlior any other 

 root liad ever existed or wliether the walls ran up hi^liei- and Joined the 

 rock, but we incline to the lirst sujtpo.sition. The .i>i()und-i)liui showed a 

 front room about G by 9 ieet in dinieusions, and back ot it two sniidler 

 cues, the face of the rock form ini;- their back walls. These were each 

 about 5 by 7 feet square. The left lumd of the two back rooms i>roJected 

 beyoiulthe fi-ont room in an L. The cedar beams, whi(;li had dixided the 

 house into two floors, were ftone, with the exception of a few splintered 

 pieces and ends remaining? in the wall, just enough to show what they 

 were made ol\. We had some little doubt as to whether the back rooms 

 Avere divided in the same wiiy, nothing remaining to prove the fact, 

 excepting holes in the walls, at the same height as the beams in 

 the other ])ortion. In the lower front room were two ai)erturcs, 

 one serving as a door, and oi)ening out ui)on the es])lanade, about 

 20 by ;}() inches in size, the lower sill tii inches from the lloor, and 

 the other a small outlook, about lli inches square, up near the ceiling, 

 and looking over the Avhole cai^ion beneath. In the ni)per story, a window 

 coriesj)onded in size, sluipe, and position to the larger one below, 

 both commanding an extended view down the canon. The upper lintel 

 of this window was of small, straight sticks of cedar, of about the size 

 of one's finger, laid close together, the small stones of the masonry 

 resting upon them. Directly opposite this window was a similar one, as 

 shown in the ligure, but opening into a largo reservoir, or cistern, the 

 upper walls of which came nearly to the toj) of the win(low\ It was 

 semicircular, inclosing the angle formed by the wall against the rock, 

 with an ai)proximate cajtacity of about two and a Jialf hogsheads. 

 From the window, and extending down to the bottom of the reservoir, 

 Avas a scries of cedar ])egs, about a foot apart, enabling the occupants 

 to easily reach the bottom. I'lie entire construction of this little human 

 eyrie displayed wonderful i)erseverance, ingenuity, and some taste. 

 Perpendiculars were well regarded, and the angles carefully squared. 

 The stones of the outer rooms or iVout were all squared and smoothly 

 faced, but were not laid in regular courses, as they are not uniform in 

 size, ranging i'rom 15 inches in length and 8 in thickness down to very 

 small ones. About the corners and the windows, considerable care and 

 judgment werecAident in the overlapping of the joints, so that all was 

 held ilrjidy together. The only sign of weakness was in the bulging 

 outward of tiie front wall, produced by the giving w^ay or removal of 

 the lh)or-beams. The back portions were built of rough stoiu;, lirndy 

 cemented together. The mortar was compact and hard, ai grayish-white, 

 resembling lime mortar, but cracking all over, like some of the adolx' 

 mortars. AH the interstices between the larger stones were carefully 

 chinked in with small chij>s of the. same material. Tiie partitions were 

 of the same character as the smooth w^all outside, both ])resentingsome- 

 Avliat the appearance of having been rubbed down sinootii after they 

 were laid. The a])ertures, froirj one room to another, were; small, corre- 

 sponding in size aud position to those outside. ]\lost peculiar, however, 

 was the dressing of the walls of the upper and lower front rooms. 

 Both were plastered with a thin layer of some firm cement of about an 

 eighth of an inch in thi(;kncss, and colored a deep nniroon-red, with a 

 dingy white baud 8 inches in breadth, running around floor, sides, and 

 ceiling. In some places, it had i)eeled away, exposing a smoothly- 

 dressed surface of rock. No signs of oinamentation, other than the baud 

 alluded to, were visible. The lloor, which was covered to a depth of 2 

 or 3 inches with dust, .dirt, and the ex(a'ement of small animals, had 



