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position that they were the temporary houses of herders, while the hamlets, rat\g- 
ing from three or four to a dozen houses, would indicate established settlement. 
The houses were commenced by excavating one or two feet into the earth, 
the size required for the building, which was usually from six to eight feet wide 
and from twelve to twenty feet long, rough walls were built up of stone, and in 
some instances they were arched over with the same material and then the whole 
structure covered with earth, no mortar being used in the construction. Near 
these hamlets the now dry water tanks are always found, the same broken pottery 
and the same rude mills for grinding corn. 
It would be an easy matter to invent legends and traditions to account for 
the disappearance of the cave-dwellers, but as plenty of such literature can be 
had by your readers at ten cents a volume, with your permission I will follow these 
people one step farther in their progress along the course of time, only saying in 
the conclusion of this article that as cave-dwellers they were a simple, peaceful, 
industrious people, knowing but few of the arts of civilization, but following these 
perseveringly and successfully until natural causes forced them to take a step in, 
advance. — Albuquerque Journal. 
REMARKABLE PROGRESS OF AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY. 
The fourth annual report of the Archseological Institute of America has just 
been distributed among the members. It appears from this report that both the 
American and the classical researches of the Institute have been prosecuted with 
marked success. Mr. Bandelier is still at work in New Mexico, and in a letter 
dated San Juan, April 9, 1883, he outlines his further progress as follows: 
" From Tucson, to which place I am now on my way, I shall go via George- 
town to Chihuahua and thence to Casas Grandes. After completion of my work 
there I shall return to Tucson, and thence ride down zigzag through Sonora 
Sinaloa, Michoacan, etc., to the City of Mexico. From this city I propose to 
turn upward again, following the route of Cortez to Vera Cruz, and thence along 
the coast, via Cintla, Misantla, Papantla, through the Huaxteco country to Mont- 
erey. In that manner I shall have surveyed the whole of Mexico north of the nine- 
teenth parallel of latitude." The report further states that " should Mr. BandeHer 
be able to accomplish this proposed journey during the present year, one of the 
most important objects of the Institute in the investigations intrusted to him will 
have been attained. A general survey of the Pueblo settlements from their 
northern limit as far as the City of Mexico will have been made by a competent 
observer, and many points hitherto in doubt — not only in regard to the Indians, 
but also concerning the early Spanish discoveries and settlement of the country 
— will have been determined." As the modernization of New Mexico and Mex- 
ico is progressing rapidly, it is, indeed, fortunate that Mr. Bandelier's work was 
not longer deferred. Unhappily, however, the income of the Institute is so pre- 
carious that its labors will soon have to cease unless it receives more adequate 
