Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ing in of the wall above. Apparentlybut a small amount of this damage can be attributed to rainstorms,which, although rare in this region, are sometimes violent. There isevidence that the present height of the walls is nearly the originalheight, in other words, that the loss from surface erosion in several cen-turies has been trifling, although numerous opinions to the contraryhave been expressed by causal observers. The eastern wall has suf-fered more from this cause than the others; a belt on the north
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ing in of the wall above. Apparentlybut a small amount of this damage can be attributed to rainstorms,which, although rare in this region, are sometimes violent. There isevidence that the present height of the walls is nearly the originalheight, in other words, that the loss from surface erosion in several cen-turies has been trifling, although numerous opinions to the contraryhave been expressed by causal observers. The eastern wall has suf-fered more from this cause than the others; a belt on the northernhalf, apparently softer than the remainder of tlie wall, has been eatenaway to a depth of nearly a foot. The interior wall faces are in goodcondition generally, except about openings and in places near the top. Evidences of the original flooring are jireserved in several of therooms, especially in the north room. The flooring conformed to thepueblo type in the use of a series of principal beams, about 3 inches indiameter, above which was a secondary series smaller in size and placed.
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