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laborious investigator doubtless had authority for. 
He repeats the old story that this edifice, ‘‘agreeably 
to the universal tradition of these people, was built by 
the Mexicans in their peregrination.” That it con- 
sisted of ‘ three floors with a terrace above them, and 
without any entrance to the under floor. The door | 
for entrance to the building is on the second floor, so 
that a scaling ladder is necessary.” This would show 
that at some period since the settlement of the country 
its floors remained. 
The other details in Clavigero are incorrect, and 
unquestionably refer to another edifice, which was built ~ 
of stone, was roofed, and ‘surrounded by a wall seven 
feet thick.” He also calls it a “fortress,” which term 
cannot be applied to this structure. I am of opinion 
that our author either mistook the sense of the writer 
he obtained his information from, or has blended the 
descriptions of two different buildings. 
Garcia Conde also states* that this edifice is known 
to have had “three stories and a roof, with stairs out- 
side probably of wood,” and that the same kind of 
structures are found at the present time among the pu- 
eblos of the independent Mogquis,” north of the Gila. 
He also repeats the story of the Aztec emigration, and 
that this was the third stopping-place of that people 
on their way from the North to the valley of Mexico. 
There is a class of apartments in this edifice, the 
object of which I am unable to conjecture, unless they 
were intended as depositories for maize, beans, 2? 
other agricultural products, or in other words, 2 gt 
* Ensayo Estadistico sobre el Estado de Chihuahua, fol. p. 74 
