606 The Ancient Puéblos. [ September, 
and rocks, thus giving the Indian a chance to obtain the honey. 
Some California Indians have domesticated the wild bees. In 
Southern California the Indians cut down the trees containing 
bees, put them in a sack, carry away the honey to eat and sell the 
bees for one dollar a swarm, the purchaser taking all risks of get- 
ting a queen. ‘Bees in a sack, for sale by an Indian, are surely a 
novel article of trade. 
[ Zo be Concluded. | 
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THE ANCIENT PUÉBLOS, OR THE RUINS OF THE 
VALLEY OF THE RIO SAN JUAN. 
BY EDWIN A. BARBER. 
PART IL. 
MOST peculiar style of architecture prevails in the Monte- 
zuma cafion, in south-eastern Utah, which is entirely dif- 
ferent from anything that occurs elsewhere. For instance, on a 
little island-plateau, rising from the middle of the valley to a 
height of forty feet, are the walls of a considerable edifice. Long 
narrow stones, measuring from four to seven feet in length and a 
foot or so in their other dimensions, have been set up like posts 
in a fence, standing at different distances apart, from two to ten 
feet. Between these the spaces have been filled in after the usual 
style of masonry. Some of the slabs are now standing at an 
inclination of several degrees, having been pushed outward by 
the accumulating dédris inside. These are imbedded in the earth 
only to a depth of a few inches or a foot (See fig. 1, plate v., 
also fig. 1, plate vi). 
Ruths down the cañon a somewhat similar ruin may be seen. 
Along the eastern side of a great parallelogram stand seven of 
_ these upright stones, some of them measuring, above the surface 
of the soil, nine feet. In their general appearance they some- 
what resemble the dolmens or sacred stones of the Eastern Hemi- 
_ sphere, but evidently they had not been used for religious pur- 
ee poses. They had been built in the walls like pillars for the 
‘plate v). 
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of strengthening the original structures (See fig: 2, 
The pinged ie on this as (3), represents a group = 
