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similar steps and a fourth in the outer wall of room 31 gave access 

 to the roof of the latter. The court floor is mostly artificial and 

 'Continues at the same level with the roof of room 100. 



We substituted a notched cedar for the west steps and placed a 

 similar, though larger, ladder in the north corner. 



Room, 35, a dwelling, is situated between room 37 and court 45. 

 TVe observed no evidence of the second story shown in Douglass's 

 ground plan as reproduced by Fewkes (1911). 



The northwest side is sheer cliff, surmounted by rooms 29 and 30 ; 

 the southeast and southwest walls are masonry; the northeast, of 

 wattle. While the latter was surfaced all over, only the lower half 

 of the other three was plastered. The north part of the floor is 

 native rock, worked down nearly 2 feet (0.60 m.) in the west corner 

 and along the southwest side. A slab-lined but screenless fireplace, 

 18 by 20 inches (0.45 by 0.50 m.), occupies the middle floor. Three 

 feet two inches above the floor a 5 by 9 inch (0.12 by 0,22 m.) 

 opening extends diagonally through the middle southeast wall. In 

 the west corner, 11 inches (0.27 m.) above the floor, is an 8 by 4 inch 

 (0.20 by 0.10 m.) shelf. 



A small beam lies against the northwest cliff ; two larger northeast- 

 southwest beams cross the middle room. At the northeast these 

 three timbers rested upon individual posts set just within the wattled 

 wall. Although five cross poles (1 single, 2 pairs) appear in the 

 southeast wall, at least four others were formerly present. 



In 1917 we repaired but did not replaster the wattled wall; we 

 reconstructed the rounded adobe sill of its door and rebuilt the 

 <;entral fireplace. 



Court B7. The northwest wall is sheer cliff, 8 feet (2.4 m.) high, 

 surmounted by the retaining wall fronting court 28. No beam rests 

 appear on this side. Two beam ends from room 35 protrude through 

 the northeast wall, which apparently never extended more than 

 5% feet (1.7 m.) above the court floor. Of the southeast side only 

 traces now remain in the east corner. At the northwest is the 

 cleaved end of a rock ledge on whose sloping surface stands the 

 fragmentary northeast wall of room 39, ending abruptly with the 

 southeast face of the ledge. Court 37 lies several feet below pas- 

 sage 40, but connects with it by a single pecked step. Other similar 

 steps may long since have disappeared with disintegration of the 

 soft, friable sandstone. 



Bone awls were pointed on the northwest cliff face; stone axes 

 were sharpened on the sandstone floor. In the west corner four 

 steps were pecked in the gently sloping surface where steps seem 

 quite unnecessary. 



We observed no suggestion of the second story indicated on 

 Douglass's ground plan. 



