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Show 35 the line of bluffs, to the valley of a small tributary, then over another divide across the upturned edges of the great fold spoken of in the first part of this article, to quite an expansion of the valley of the Ohelly, about one mile square, covered with sage- brush and drifted sand, on the upper or right- hand side of which we are fortunate enough to find two springs of cool, fresh water, a most delicious luxury where the temperature of the water of the San Juan was 80 degrees, and the coldest to be had, and the temperature of the atmosphere away up in the hundreds during the day- time. The surface of this valley, or small plain, contains indications of old ruins, about which we picked up many arrows, knives, and other stone implements, with the ever- present pottery. The wash of the Ohelly skirts one side of the valley, with perpendicular bluffs 200 to 400 feet high, closely bordering its other bank. Above and below the opposite bluffs rise up again, throwing the wash into deep canons. An examination of the exceedingly tortuous course of the wash and its accompanying bluff- line for a distance of 5 miles up and down revealed but one ruin ( Plate 19), a very important and interesting one, however. This cave- town occurs in a great bend of the encircling line of bluffs, where the wash makes a wide detour, perched upon a recessed bench about 70 feet above the valley, and overhung by a solid wall of massive sandstone extending up over 200 feet farther. The left- hand side of the bench supporting the buildings sweeps back in a sharp curve about 80 feet under the bluff, and then gradually comes to the front again until, on the extreme right hand, the buildings are built upon a mass of dibris, bnt partially protected overhead. The total length over the solidly-built portion of the town is 545 feet, with a greater width in no place of more than 40 feet. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 rooms upon the ground- plan, with some uncertainty existing as to many of the subdivisions on the right hand in the vicinity of d and e; bet in the cave- built portion every apartment was distinctly marked. Midway in the town is a circular room of heavily and solidly built masonry, that was probably intended for an estufa or council hall $ that is, if we can reasonably assume any similarity in the methods of bailding or worship to those of the Pueblos of New Mexico. Starting from this estufa is a narrow passage running back of the line of houses on the left to the two- story group, a, where it ends abruptly, farther access being had through the back row of rooms, or over the roofs of the lower front row, probably the latter, for it is likely that these roofs served as a platform from which to enter the rooms back of it. At the extreme end a still higher ledge occurs, with the overhanging wall coming down close over it, its outer edge inclosed by a wall, and a little store- room in its farther corner; it was reserved, probably, as an out- door workiugroom. All the buildings of this half are of one story, with the exception of the group a, the residence probably of the chief or of some other important family in the community. The rooms just back of it are the store- rooms of the family, where the corn and squashes were prft away for the winter's consumption. At the place marked 6, near these store- rooms, there are two half- round inclosures of rtone- work, that are very likely the remains of small reservoirs or springs. The rock back of them is dug out beneath, and had, even in the dry season, when we were there, a damp appearance, as though water was not far removed, and might easily be coaxed to the surface. The front line of wall of this left side of the town is built upon a steep angle of smooth rock, with the interior of the apartments filled op with earth so as to make their floors level, bringing them a little |