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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
For defensive purposes it would not 
have been needed, especially one so well 
made; but observation has taught me 
that, when no other reasonable explana¬ 
tion can be found for doing a thing, 
superstitious or religious motives can be 
consistently introduced to account for it. 
This hill was really an outlying one from 
a larger near by and overlooking it. 
After climbing up the latter about half¬ 
way a series of stone buildings, not dis¬ 
cernible from the bottom, were clearly 
made out. They encircled the hill, and 
about halfway between these and the 
top of the hill was another row of encir¬ 
cling buildings, faintly recognized by 
their ruins, although the masonry was of 
the best character. On the top of the 
hill was a fortification, with a well prob¬ 
ably about twenty feet from the summit* 
