280 INDIANS OF THE GILA, 
upper story. The exterior wall extends from north to 
south four hundred and twenty feet, and from east to 
west two hundred and sixty feet. The interior of 
the house consists of five halls; the three middle ones 
being of one size, and the two extreme ones longer. 
The three middle ones are twenty-six feet in length 
from north to south, and ten feét in breadth from east 
‘to west. The two extreme ones measure twelve feet 
from north to south, and thirty-eight feet from east to 
west.’”* 
The Casa Grande, as described in this extract from 
Father Font, has been alluded to by many authors, 
and the dimensions, as given by him, quoted; but all 
have mistaken the meaning of the writer in the dimen- 
sions. He speaks of the house around which “there 
are ruins, indicating a fence or wall which surrounded 
the house and other buildings; ” and then goes on to 
say, that ‘‘the exterior wall extends from north to 
south four hundred and twenty feet, and from east to 
west two hundred and sixty feet.” Nearly all the 
writers who refer to the building (and there are many, 
among which may be named Baron Humboldt him- 
self*), quote these dimensions of the ‘‘fence” or “eX 
terior wall,” as those of the edifice itself. It is poss 
ble that the manuscript referred to by Baron Hum- 
boldt differed from that in my possession ; for the 
extract from Font’s journal, contained in Mr. School- 
craft's work on the Indian tribes, says: ‘‘ The exterior 
* Father Pedro Font’s Journal from Orcasitas, in Sonora, t0 Mon- — 
s. 
terey, California, in 1775, °76, 77. 
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