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pine trees, and from there gain the first 
incline, which, though dizzily steep, I 
think would have led, by a little Alpine 
INTERIOR OF A CLIFF DWELLER’S HOME, SEVENTY-FIVE 
FEET ABOVE THE WATER. 
engineering, into the bottom of the big 
barranca four or five thousand feet below, 
and thence an ascent could be made to 
the caves of the cliff dwellers. But there 
