THE CLIFF DWELL IF G MODELS 
U* S. GEOLOGICAL AID CEOC.'DHIJC.vL EuTVJY OF THE I3RHI3JOBISS 
MBBACIIIG IDAHO AND WYOMI NO-187 7, 
By F. V. HAYDEN* 
(Work of W, K. Holmes) 
"The following year the same region was visited by Mr* W. II* 
Holmes, one of the geologists of the survey, and a careful in- 
vestigation made of all the ruins*" (1875) (page XL II I ) 
"The occasion of the Centennial inhibition at Philadelphia 
led to the idea, of preparing" models of these ruins for the clearer 
illustration of their peculiarities, four of which were completed 
in season for the opening of the exhibition. Since that time not 
only the number of these inter es ting models, has been increased , but 
they have been perfected in execution and faithful delineation of 
these mysterious remains of an extinct race who once lived within 
the borders of our western domain* 
L ' t r - >• . ’ "? '■ " * '.•** t ' f , V s i .1 *v \ ,, \ 
A study o f these models will give a very excellent idea of 
the ruined dwellings themselves* The first of these models, exe- 
cuted by Hr . Holmes,, represents the cliff house of the .Man oos 
Canon, the exterior dimensions of wl ich are 28 inches in breadth 
by 46 inches in height, and on a scale of 1*24, or two feet to the 
inch* This is a two-story bull ding, constructed of stone, occupy- 
ing a narrow ledge in the vertical face of the bluff 700 feet 
above the valley, and 200 feet from the teg.* It is 24 feet in 
length and 14 feet, in depth, and divided into four rooms on the 
ground -floor* The beams supporting the second floor are all 
destroyed* The doorways y serving also -as windows, were quite 
small, only one small aperture in the outer wall feeing the valley, 
The exposed walls were lightly plastered' .over with clay; end so 
closely resembled the general surface of the bluff that it becomes 
exceedingly difficult to distinguish them at n little distance 
from the if surround i ngs * **■ ( 1876 ) ( pa g© IX I II ) 
