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thick, and now standing some 12 feet high. The two outer walls 
inclose a space of about 6 feet in width, which-is divided into 14 
equally-sized rooms, communicating p one another by small 
window-like doorways. The next is a “ cliff-house ” in the valley 
of the Rio de Chelly. Itis ‘about 20 miles above the cave town 
already spoken of. This is a two-story house, about 20 feet square, 
occupying a ledge some 75 feet above the valley, and overhung by 
the bluff. The approach from the valley is by a series of steps 
hewn in the steep face of the rock ; and this method was the one 
most used by the occupants, although there is a way out to the 
top of the bluff. This model is 42 inches in height by 24 broad, 
and is built upon a scale of 1.36. 
Téwa, one of the seven Moqui towns in North-eastern Arizona, 
is a very interesting and instructive model, representing, as it 
does, one of the most ancient and best authenticated of the dwel- 
lings of a people who are supposed to be the descendants of the 
clif-dwellers. Téwa is the first of the seven villages forming the 
province as we approach them from the east, and occupies the 
summit of a narrow mesa some 600 feet in height and 1,200 yards 
in length, upon which are also two other somewhat similar villages. 
The approach is bya circuitous road-way hewn in the perpendicular 
face of the bluff which surrounds the mesa upon all sides. It is the 
only approach accessible for animals to the three villages. Other 
ladder-like stairways are cut in the rock, which are used princi- 
pally by the water- -carriers, for all their springs and reservoirs are 
at the bottom of the mesa. This village is represented upon a 
scale of 1 inch to 8 feet, or 1.96. The dimensions of the model 
are 36 inches in length, 29 inches in width and 14 inches in 
height. : 
In the spring of 1877 Mr. Jackson made a tour over much of 
the northern part of New Mexico, and westward to the Moqui 
towns in Arizona, and secured materials for a number of very in- 
teresting models, illustrating the methods of the Pueblos or town- 
builders in the construction of their dwellings. Two villages 
have been selected for immediate construction, as showing the 
_ most ancient and best known examples of their peculiar architec- 
. a ture, viz: Taos and Acoma; the one of many-storied, terraced 
houses, and the other built high up on an impregnable rock. 
_ The model of Taos is now completed,:the dimensions of which 
me 42 by 39 inches, and the scale one inch to twenty feet, 1: ‘oe ai 
