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a little below loose earth filled the shaft, but whether resting on another 

 floor or the ground I could not tell. No connection was found between 

 this and any of the rooms. I regretted that I could not reach the bottom, 

 as I had here hoped to find entrances to those rooms which appeared to 

 have none from the outside. Holes, as if for ventilation, but not large 

 enough to admit a man, and now filled with dirt, seemed to extend through 

 the exterior walls of the building in places. 



The other main building-, which is the larger of the two, is about '200 

 yards to the west of this, and quite remarkable in plan. What was proba- 

 blv the principal part is on the north side, the roof fallen in and much debris 

 about the exterior. We found a number of much larger rooms than in the 

 other building, and interior walls at least 30 feet high. This portion of the 

 building is about 200 feet long and regularly supported on the exterior by 

 buttresses ; from either end two wings connect and run out, making the 

 interior angles about 100°; these wings extend about 150 feet, then their 

 extremities seem to have been connected by a circular wall, now entirely 

 in ruins, but showing the remains of a gate-way. Above the buttresses, on 

 the exterior wall of the main portion, the wall is quite perfect, and shows 

 a very pretty architectural design. The masonry is not only built with 

 courses of different thicknesses of stone, but also of different colors. There 

 is seen a projecting cornice, plain, composed of three or four courses of very 

 thin reddish sandstones, and again a course of nearly white stone, perhaps 

 a foot thick, both very even, and then other courses of different shades and 

 thicknesses alternate. In this building there are remains of three circular 

 rooms, one at each of the angles above referred to, and one in the center of 

 the court. A great deal of broken pottery was about, but confined to cer- 

 tain portions of the building, principally the extremities of the wings. Want 

 of time prevented me from making measurements and obtaining much accu- 

 rate data that I desired 



Many years must have elapsed since these buildings were in ruins, but 

 some of the walls, where supported, are well preserved. Very heavy sage- 

 brash was growing in many places upon the mounds of the ruins. The 

 remains of a circular building were found midway between the two main 

 buildings, and it has been supposed that these circular rooms were places 



