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the rim of a spur of this canyon or are perched on angular rocks 

 at its base. Even now. after centuries of wear, they show fine 

 masonry, although some of the mortar between the courses of stones 



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Fig. 130. — Tower in HoUv Canyon. Photograph by 



J. Wirsula. 



has been washed out. There are small clilT-liouscs in the walls of 

 the canyon below these great houses. 



An instructive cluster of ruins in the Ilovcnweep district is the 

 Hackbcrry ("anv<>n group situated alioul J miles cast ot Kcclcy 



