. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. wenoticed being about eight miles above the canon Bonito. This was thelargest and most important one in this vicinity, occupying a large circu-lar cave very similar to the one of the San Juan, divided into twelve orfifteen rooms, with a large corral or court, and an elevated bench on oneside, with a low wall running around its front edge. This had beenoccupied by the Navajos for corraling their sheep. Over the broad, flat, valley, sage covered, sandy, and monotonous,and through which the wide shallow wash meandered from side to side,we found frequent indic
. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. wenoticed being about eight miles above the canon Bonito. This was thelargest and most important one in this vicinity, occupying a large circu-lar cave very similar to the one of the San Juan, divided into twelve orfifteen rooms, with a large corral or court, and an elevated bench on oneside, with a low wall running around its front edge. This had beenoccupied by the Navajos for corraling their sheep. Over the broad, flat, valley, sage covered, sandy, and monotonous,and through which the wide shallow wash meandered from side to side,we found frequent indications of its former occupancy by the old peoplewhom we have been following up. These indications extend southwarduntil they are lost in the cultivated region about the head of the valley. There were no more remains of stone-built houses, nor the slightestsign of one; all were probably of adobe, the only clew in many cases beingsimply a slight mound with considerable quantities of broken pottery If.~S. Geological- Srnxey. Plate AT . PHOTO-LITHO. CO. NY (CSBORi-iES PMC ESS.) jackson.] RUINS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO, &C. 425 surrounding it. Eight miles up the canon De Chelly are the ruins of acave-town very much like the one described (Plate L), but much smaller,and with a ruined mass of houses at the foot of the bluffs below the cave-like bench.* About the head of the valley the Navajo Indians, takingadvantage of the water which comes down thus far from the mountainsto the east, have under cultivation several hundred acres, planted withcorn, pumpkins, and melons. From here our trail to the Moqui settle-ments branched off in a southwesterly direction to a low divide underthe southern end of the Mesa Vaca, where it turned nearly south audhardly deviated from a bee-line for a distance of nearly 40 miles to Tegua,the nearest of the Moqui towns. We will not now stop to discuss the question as to what connectionmay have existed between the ancient builders of the San Juan and thepr
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