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Show 37 we put them carefully by for future investigators. In the rubbish at the extreme right, a handsome little jug or vase ( see Fig. 5, Plate 21) was found, lacking only its handle. A careful search through the very thick deposits of dibris would undoubtedly reveal many treasures, and we felt many regrets that we could not consistently devote a number of days to the pleasant undertaking. We can only expect to skim the surface, leaving to others hereafter the more satisfactory duty of exhausting each subject in detail. In progressing southward we again find it necessary to climb the steep bluffs bordering the Chelly, here so tortuous and walled up as to be impracticable, if not impassable. Once on top, however, we made our way with comparative ease over great dunes of a very flue, yellowish ttbitesand, packed so solidly as to inconvenience the animals but very-little; but much the greater part of the way is over a solid floor of bare, nearly white, sandstone, rising . into occasional dome- shaped hillocks, and furrowed by shallow ravines. Sage- brush, juuiper, and piiiou trees were scattered plentifully over the whole region, affording the only relief to an otherwise perfectly barren desert. Traveling thus over this trackless waste, we jeach in about fifteen or tweuty miles the bare red plains of the famous so- called diamond- fields of Arizona. Beautiful garnets were found scattered plentifully over the whole region, but they could not tempt us to linger, for the sun beat down upou its arid surface with such an intensity that but for the extreme dryness and salubrity of the atmosphere it would have prostrated anything but a salamauder. After crossing this plain we came suddenly upon a side canon running across our course, seemingly a mere gash in the rocky plateau, down into which we were fortunate enough to find a practicable way for ourselves and animals. But what a contrast! A smooth sward of grass, and thick patches of the tall reedy kind peculiar to damp localities, made acbange grateful to both man and beast. Continuing down this canon- which has, iu consequence of its inviting appearance, beeu called the Cauon Botiito Chiquito- a couple of miles brings us to the wash of the Chelly again, bordered with groves of fine old cottonwoodsr but its bed, in which were pools of clear water, was so deep as to be almost inaccessible. A band of waudering Navajos just before us, with large flocks of sheep, had made a way down, however, that we found practicable. An after- investigation revealed the presence of water in large artificial reservoirs, or tauks, in the canon Bonito, just above where we entered it first, about which are grouped a number of old ruins. This has been a favorite Indian wintering- ground, so that the ruins here have been much modified by their occupation. Two miles down the canou of the Chelly we found the house shown in Fig. 1, Plate 15. Its situation is very similar to that of the town drown in Plate 19, but is overhung by a miich less height of the impending bluff. It was reached from the valley by a series of steps cut into the ftek, but now so weathered away as to be impracticable. It is accessible now by way of the ledge running to the left from the house, some 10 or 12 rods in length, but affording a very narrow and precarious footing. At the time of occupancy this was walled across, with possibly a way for getting over or around, for this ledge communicated directly with the p'ateau above, where there are the remains of what was possibly a corral. The house consists of two stories, 20 feet in height, built against the doping back wall of the bluff; the lower story is 18 by 10 tVet square, divided into two rooms, one slightly smaller than the other, with a com- |