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nary. These apartments, which are arranged along 
one of the main walls, are twenty feet in length, by 
ten in breadth, connected by doorways with a small 
fallen 
Part of Ground Plan of the Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. 
inclosure, or pen, in one corner between three and four 
feet high. Beside these, there are many other exceed- 
ingly narrow apartments, too contracted for dwelling- 
places or sleeping-rooms, with connecting doorways, 
and into which the hght was admitted by circular 
apertures in the upper part of the walls. The number 
and extent of these long and narrow apartments, with- 
out windows, led me to believe they were used for 
eranaries. There were also large halls; and some in- 
closures within the walls are so extensive, that they 
could never have been covered with a roof, but must 
have been open courts. The lesser ranges of buildings, 
which surrounded the principal one, may have been 
occupied by the people at large, whose property was 
deposited within the great building for safe keeping. 
Although there is less order in the tout ensemble of 
this great collection of buildings than in those at the 
north; the number of small apartments, the several 
stages or stories, the courts within, and some of the 
minor details, resemble in many respects the large 
edifices of the semi-civilized or Pueblo Indians of New 
Mexico. 
The position of these buildings differs from that 
of those near the Gila and the Salinas. The latter 
were built upon the plateau or table, just above the 
