Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ngle a small bench or terrace is formed. At this point themountains rise abruptly from the river on both sides to a height of overa thousand feet. Fig. 279 illustrates the location of this ruin. So faras could be distinguished from the hills opposite, the rooms occur intwo broken lines at right angles to each other. These four small ruins are all closely similar to the large ruindescribed above in all respects except size, and peculiarities of groundplan attendant on size. The rooms are always rectang
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ngle a small bench or terrace is formed. At this point themountains rise abruptly from the river on both sides to a height of overa thousand feet. Fig. 279 illustrates the location of this ruin. So faras could be distinguished from the hills opposite, the rooms occur intwo broken lines at right angles to each other. These four small ruins are all closely similar to the large ruindescribed above in all respects except size, and peculiarities of groundplan attendant on size. The rooms are always rectangular, generallyoblong, and arranged without regularity as regards their longer axis-Except the one last described, the ruins consist of compact masses ofrooms, without evidences of interior courts, all of very small size, andall located without reference to defense. The last-described ruin differsfrom the others only in the arrangement of rooms. There is practi-cally no standing wall remaining in any of them, and even now theycan be seen for miles from the hills above. When the walls were.
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