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194 NEW TEACKS IN KOETH AMEEICA 



north as tlie main yalley of tlie Eio San Juan, hut there ai 



several upon the two most southern tributaries — the Eio de 



Chelly and the Canon de Chaco. The most remartable are 



the pnehlos Pintado, Una Yida, Wegigi, Hungo Pavie, and 



Bonito, all on the latter stream. Besides these there are five 



others in a more ruined state. The Puehlo Pintado has three 



stories, its Avhole elevation being about 30 feet. The walls 



are built of small flat slabs of grey, fine-grained sandstone, 



2^ inches thick, and are put together with much art 



and ingenuity by means of a .kind of mortar made without 



lime. At a distance they have the appearance of mosaic 



work. The thickness of the outer wall of the first story is 



1 yard at the base, diminishing at each successive story, until 



the top wall scarcely exceeds 1 foot. There are, as usual,, 



no external openings in the groimd floor. The length of the 



edifice is 390 feet; the groimd floor contains fifty-three rooms, 



which open into each other by means of very small doors, in 



many 'instances only 33 inches square. The floors are 



made of rough beams, over which transverse cross-beams 



^ are laid, and above all is a coating of bark and brushwood 



covered over with mortar. The wood appears to have been 



cut with some blunt instrument. 



The ruins of Wegigi are similar to those of Pintado, being 

 690 feet in length, and having ninety-nine rooms on the 

 ground floor. The Pueblo Una Yida is no less than 984 feet 

 long, and the Pueblo Bonito is still more extensive. The 

 estufa of the latter is very large, and in a fair state ■ of pre- 

 serv^ation. It is 180 feet in circumference, and the walls are. 

 regularly formed of alternate layers of small and large stones 

 held together Tvith mortar. 



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Another pueblo, Chetho Kette, measures 1,300 feet m cir- ^ 

 cumferencej and was originally four stories high. It has the 



