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overhead correspond in shape and size with those beneath.

In the valley on N side of creek is a pueblo now being excavated. 60 rooms have been uncovered on the ground floor in about 1/4 of the ruin. Probably there were 250 on the ground floor and about 150 above. Unlike most community houses of this district, it is nearly circular. The only exit yet found is on the east side.

The slope of the stream bed and of the rim of the canyon and of the tops of the mesa are all about the same as that of the chief wall of tufa on the north side, so that the stream bed, base of the wall, top of wall and rim are approximately parallel. The base of the wall is more uneven than the top, owing to the fact that very narrow gulches dissect the wall, and where these open out into the canyon talus is wanting, while between gulches the talus creeps up the wall thus: