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of this inclosure 5.37 meters. A space of 15.4 meters follows, with preci- 

 pices on both sides, when we reach house No. 6. The eastern wall stands 

 5 feet high on the summit of the precipice, from which a stone might be 

 dropped to the ground, perhaps 350 feet below. Only 8 feet of the western 

 wall remained at the time of my examination. The inclosure is 6.04 meters 

 long, and not quite so wide, and is divided transversely by a wall, which 

 cuts off less than one-third the length of the apartment. In one of the 

 opposite corners of the larger room is the stump of a cedar post 5 inches in 

 diameter. This house can only be reached by climbing over narrow ledges 

 and steep faces of rock. House No. 7 follows an interval of 42.30 meters. 

 Its foundation-wall incloses an irregular square space 4.70 meters long and 

 3.69 meters wide ; it is 11 feet high on the western side, and very regularly 

 built and well preserved ; on the east side it is 8 feet high, and is inter- 

 rupted by a door- way of regular form. From this a narrow fissure offers a 

 precarious hold for descent for a considerable distance down the face of the 

 precipice, but whether passable to the bottom I could not ascertain. 



The crest of the ridge is without ruins for 52.34 meters farther ; then 

 a building follows whose inclosed space is an irregular circle of 4.70 meters 

 diameter. A transverse summit-ledge forms its southern wall, but the re- 

 maining portion is remarkably massive, measuring 3 feet in thickness. Its 

 western wall is 12 feet high, and contains many huge stones, which four or 

 five men could not lift unaided by machinery. Several scrub-oaks of 3 

 inches in diameter grow in this chamber, and stumps of the cedar posts 

 that supported the roof remain. Here follows a row of ten similar ruined 

 houses, measuring from 3.35 to 6.24 meters in length. Of these, No. 13 

 is remarkable for containing a scrub-oak of 13 inches in diameter, the 

 largest that I have seen in the country, and the species is an abundant one. 

 In No. 14 the remaining western wall is 15 feet in height. There was a 

 good deal of pottery lying on the western slope of the rock, but of flint 

 implements and chips I found but few. All of these ruins contain full- 

 grown sage-bushes. No 18 is the largest ruin; the length of its inclosure 

 is 8.62 meters, and the width 6.71 meters; its west wall is 6 feet high; the 

 floor is overgrown with sage of the largest size. This building stood 51 

 meters from No. 17; 12.80 meters northward the ridge descends slightly 



