El Palacio . , giving meager supportindeed, while in other mstances they hadno visible means of support, as the up-right posts which held them had eitherbeen taken out before the filling, or hadcompletely decayed after the room wasfilled in. On these mam beams, whichin the smaller rooms usually numberedthree or four, sometimes fewer, wereplaced the cross beams a foot or lessapart; and over these a layer of coarsegrass and the usual earth or adobe mudto form the flooring. The masonry of Hawikuh is crude, onthe whole, relatively few walls remaining EL PALACIO. A Recent Section of Hawikuh Showing
El Palacio . , giving meager supportindeed, while in other mstances they hadno visible means of support, as the up-right posts which held them had eitherbeen taken out before the filling, or hadcompletely decayed after the room wasfilled in. On these mam beams, whichin the smaller rooms usually numberedthree or four, sometimes fewer, wereplaced the cross beams a foot or lessapart; and over these a layer of coarsegrass and the usual earth or adobe mudto form the flooring. The masonry of Hawikuh is crude, onthe whole, relatively few walls remaining EL PALACIO. A Recent Section of Hawikuh Showing Well Preserved Walls, ahhough theHouses here had been Destroyed by Fire and Partly Rebuilt. perpendicular; indeed in some cases thewalls leaned so much, even while thehouses were occupied, that one wondershow they could have remaneJ standingal cill. Although laminated sandstonewas readily and abundantly available inthe vicinity, and easily shaped, liltle at-tention was given to the masonry asidefrom laying one stone upon another in amore or less haphazard fashion, for evenin the best walls no care was taken tooverlap the joints, in many cases half adozen cr more occurring one over theother. Almost invariably the cornerswere butted one against another, as ifthe four walls of a house were not builttogether; but in a few instances there wasmore or e s bonding of the corners,somstimes deliberately, at other times ow-ing to reconstruclion. The width ofthe walls was almost mvariably elevenmches. The stones of the walls were laid madobe mortar, in the more
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