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vicinity, whether they had ever discovered the Campo 
Santo, or burial ground, of the builders of these edifi- 
ces; but they all declared they had found none. 
West of these, about two hundred feet distant on 
the plateau, are the remains of a building, the dimen- 
sions of which I did not take, but think it about 150 
feet square. But small portions of its walls remain— 
enough, however, to show the nature of the building, 
which could not have been more than one story high. 
It was divided into a number of compartments, of 
equal dimensions, except the corner ones, and resem- 
bled some of the low buildings connected with the 
large edifice adjacent. 
The following is an outline of the ground plan as 
indicated by the lines of the walls. 
Ground Plan of one of the Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. 
The plain for some distance south, I was told, was 
covered with traces of old buildings; but they were | 
mere heaps, without a distinct form toshow the nature 
of the original structure. In the valley they are also 
found. 
Garcia Conde also mentions* a second class of 
* Ensayo Estadistico sobre el Estado de Chihuahua, p. 75. 
