. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. From National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C. Copyright, 1916. SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL of the sea from Newport PROPOSED GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK,NORTH CAROLINA. Yonahlossee Road along the side of Grandfather Mountain. REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 857 DISCOVERY OF FAR=VIEW HOUSE. The cliff dwellings are not all that remain of the ancient civiliza-tion that the park contains. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smith-sonian Institution, uncovered the wonderful Sun Te
. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. From National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C. Copyright, 1916. SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL of the sea from Newport PROPOSED GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK,NORTH CAROLINA. Yonahlossee Road along the side of Grandfather Mountain. REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 857 DISCOVERY OF FAR=VIEW HOUSE. The cliff dwellings are not all that remain of the ancient civiliza-tion that the park contains. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smith-sonian Institution, uncovered the wonderful Sun Temple on the topof the mesa, not far from Cliff Palace, in 1915, and last year, in theMummy Lake group of mounds, he unearthed and restored Far-View House, a splendid mesa pueblo of enormous size. A pictureof this ruin and a model of its structure are contained in this re-port. It can not be described here, but Dr. Fewkes has recently pub-lished a full report on his excavation of Mummy Lake and hasfully explained the features of Far-View House. BIG RESULTS FOR LITTLE MONEY. The excavating that has been done in Mesa Verde Park has beenaccomplished on a very small scale. Dr. Fewkes, with small allot-ments of funds made only
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