. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . 1 rooms are nowstanding, 17 of which have well-preserved roofs. The walls of thehouses are constructed of sandstone blocks, held together with mudand mortar. The roofs are made of spruce timbers, placed crosswiseto form joists, the ends projecting through the outer walls. Smallerpoles are placed at right angles with these and then covered with athatch of willows and mud, which forms the roof. Inside, the floorsare plastered with mud; and in nearly every room there is a smallcircular or square hole about 9 inches deep, which was evidently
. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . 1 rooms are nowstanding, 17 of which have well-preserved roofs. The walls of thehouses are constructed of sandstone blocks, held together with mudand mortar. The roofs are made of spruce timbers, placed crosswiseto form joists, the ends projecting through the outer walls. Smallerpoles are placed at right angles with these and then covered with athatch of willows and mud, which forms the roof. Inside, the floorsare plastered with mud; and in nearly every room there is a smallcircular or square hole about 9 inches deep, which was evidentlyused for a fireplace0 The rooms have doorways or openings in the84490°—17 5 34 roofs and sides, the largest opening noted being 18 by 30 average size of the rooms is 6 by 6 by 6 feet. The Keet Seel (Navajo for broken pottery) ruins were discov-ered in March, 1894, by Richard Wetherill. They are situated atan elevation of 7,100 feet, in a crescent-shaped cave 400 feet longby 150 feet high, near the base of a soft red sandstone cliff on the. Navajo National Monument, Arh., containing 360 acres, embracing the Keet Seel and Betata Kin ruins,located in two small tracts of 160 acres each, along 1 aguna Creek, and Inscription House ruins, on NavajoCreek, in a 40-acre tract, all within the Navajo Indian Reservation; originally created Mar. 20, 1909,boundaries modified as above Mar. 14, 1912. west side of Laguna Creek, 12 miles north of Marsh Pass and 24miles northwest of Kayenta. These ruins are very much similar in construction to the BetataKin Ruins, but are in a much better state of preservation. This isdoubtless due to the fact that the overhanging cliffs protect thebuildings from the action of storms. In the ruins there are severaltwo-story buildings and two circular-shaped rooms. There are 47rooms with standing walls, the roofs having fallen in, and 56 rooms 35 covered over with well-preserved roofs. The construction of theroofs in these buildings is similar to thos
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