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distance of 70 feet; tbe west wing then bends around until a little past a 

 line drawn through the centre of the ruin transversely, when it bears off 

 diagonally to join the east wing, thus resembling in its outline a semi- 

 oval. Instead of a semicircular wall, the court is enclosed by a perfectly 

 straight row of small buildings running almost due east and west, and is 

 intersected by a line of estufas, which divide it (the court) into two nearly 

 equal portions. A marked feature is the difference in the manner of con- 

 struction, as shown in the character of the masonry and of the ground 

 plan. It was not built with the unity of purpose so evident in the Pueblo 

 of Chettro Kettle and some others, but large additions have been spliced 

 in from time to time, producing a complexity in the arrangement of the 

 rooms difficult to follow out. 1 spent several hours in endeavoring to 

 unravel the intricacies of the foundations, and with better success than 

 I imagined possible. The left-hand wing consists of three rows of 

 rooms, eight in each row, 12 to 15 feet wide and from 12 to 20 feet in 

 length. The outer walls are entirely demolished, but some of the inte- 

 rior walls reach to the top of the second story. In front of this wing 

 and facing the court are the remains of what were probably three circu- 

 lar, partially subterranean rooms, probably estufas. The section adjoin- 

 ing this wing is in the shape of an almost perfect quarter-circle, and 

 consists of five tiers of rooms, with nine rooms in each. The walls are 

 standing quite generally as high as the second story. The outer tier 

 of rooms of this section, which are only about 4 feet in width, seem to 

 have been built on merely to assimilate this portion of the building with 

 the rest, for they are evidently of different periods. The middle section 

 is the most ruinous of all, but the great depth of the Mbris which covers 

 several perfect rooms indicates that it originally possessed an equal 

 height with the adjoining walls. The outer wall thus far is entirely ruined, 

 hardly a stone remaining in place, but in the section that lies between the 

 central line of estufas and the right-hand wing it rises up to the fourth 

 story, and is in a remarkably well-preserved condition. Portions of it 

 are evidently a quite late addition in the history of the ancient i^ueblo, 

 some of the outer rows having been spliced or joined to the last wing 

 in a manner which will be better\understood by a reference to the plate 

 than by any description. Several of the interior parallel and transverse 

 walls are also standing fully 30 feet high. Many of the vigas, which are 

 in excellent preservation, still retain their places and protect a number 

 of rooms on the first floor. The outer wall of the east wing is in fair 

 l)reservation, while the interior walls are in excellent order for at least 

 two stories; the apartments in this and in the adjoining section are of 

 unusual size, and the walls of the ground floor are of a firm massiveness 

 that has preserved them remarkably well. Within this wing are two 

 estufas, one of which came up with and formed a portion of the second 

 story. Across the front of the court there are two tiers of rooms about 

 25 feet in width, their fallen walls making a mound of debris 5 to 8 feet 

 in depth, indicating that they were of considerable height. Every 

 transverse wall could be easily distinguished. Interrupting this about 

 midway is a solid parallelogram 65 by 115 feet in dimensions, in which 

 are two estufas each 50 feet in diameter, A low mass of ruins connects 

 these with two more somewhat similar estufas that adjoin the centre of 

 the main building. 



Having thus roughly sketched in the external forms of the ruin, I 

 will devote some space to a description of some of its details. 



The masonry, as exhibited in the construction of the walls, is quite 

 dissimilar in the difl'erent portions, showing clearly that it was either 

 built at difl'erent periods, or that it had been once jiartialiy demolished 



