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cross poles. The lower half of this latter wall is plastered and 

 smoke stained. Native rock at the base of the northwest side had 

 been worked down to the general floor level ; elsewhere, the floor was 

 of abode mud over a debris fill. This rubbish covered three earlier 

 steps, pecked in the sloping sandstone. 



In 1917 we rebuilt an alcove in the west corner ; reconstructed 

 the northwest wall and thus again concealed all except the protrud- 

 ing east end of the rock mass under room 49. A beam was also 

 replaced on top the northwest wall. 



Room 51 may be found in front of and below rooms 44 and 56, 

 northwest of room 49. North of the angle in its southwest wall, 

 rude masonry holds back the debris forming a level for the unnum- 

 bered court marked " Bench " on Douglass's ground plan. Four 

 shallow steps, pecked into the sloping rock floor of this west corner, 

 suggest the rude masonry above them was added when room 51 was 

 constructed in this space, originally used as a passageway. 



The lower west half of the northwest side is sandstone cliff, with 

 room 44 above and at the roof level; the remainder is the masonry 

 foundation of the wattled southeast wall of room 56. Stones loosely 

 piled in debris marked the northeast wall. In the middle south- 

 east wall a door connected with room 49; east of this opening the 

 masonry had fallen. 



We supplied a new sill for the southeast door and partly recon- 

 structed both the southeast and northeast walls. In the latter, we 

 left an irregular opening to provide ready access to the ladder 

 placed in the west corner. The north leg of this ladder stands in 

 a shallow hole we pecked in the sloping cave floor. 



Room 52. The only traces of this structure were a few superposed 

 stones of its southwest wall and several others under the north edge 

 of the bowlderlike mass upon which the southeast wall had rested. 

 Room 57, at the northwest, may have opened onto the roof of this 

 building, although we have no reason to say it did. Room 56 pro- 

 trudes slightly into the west corner from which a low ledge, worked 

 down several inches, extends the entire length of the room. Two 

 cup-shaped depressions had been pecked into the cliff floor as rests 

 for the northeast masonry. 



We reconstructed portions of the southeast and northeast walls 

 in 1917 and left an opening in the northeast side to facilitate access 

 to the rooms beyond. (PI. 15, B.) 



The series of pecked steps under the southwest wall of room 52 

 is a continuation of the trail which passes up the slope westwardly 

 from room 55. These steps and the fact that all partitions had 

 abutted the major northeast-southwest walls seem to indicate that 

 rooms 51, 52, 53, etc., were later additions to the village, built upon 

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