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wall of the house is four hundred and twenty feet,” 
etc.* What follows clearly shows this to be an error; 
for it says, ‘‘the interior of the house consists of five 
halls,” and then gives the dimensions of each apartment, 
which nearly correspond with my admeasurement.+ 
Mr. Gallatin is the only writer, as far as I know, 
who understood the greater dimensions alluded to as 
referring to an exterior wall. After giving the size 
of the building and its apartments from Father Font, 
he says, ‘‘ Around the whole there are indications of an 
external wall, which included the house and other 
buildings,” four hundred and twenty by two hundred 
and sixty feet. t 
The earhest account of this building is that of 
Mangi, who, in company with Father Kino, visited it 
in the year 1694, on which occasion he said mass in it.$ 
His relation also exists only in manuscript. ‘There 
was one great edifice,” says he, ‘with the principal 
room in the middle of four stories, and the adjoining 
rooms on its four sides of three stories, with the walls 
two yards in thickness, of strong mortar and clay, so 
smooth and shining within that they appear like bur- 
nished tables, and so polished that they shone like the 
earthenware of Puebla. 
‘“ At the distance of an arquebuss shot twelve other 
* Font’s admeasurement was in Spanish geometrical feet, which dif- 
fer from the English foot of twelve inches. 
t History, Condition, and Prospect of the Indian Tribes, vol. iu. 
p. 300. 
] Trans. of Amer. Ethnol. Society, vol. ii. p. 86. 
§ See extract from Mangi’s Diary, in Schoolcraft’s History and Con- 
dition of the Indian Tribes, vol. iii, p. 301. 
