This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...wall was about 140 feet. That they belong to the community of the Cave-dwellers, and serve as their fortresses, councilchambers and places of worship, would seem to be natural and reasonable inferences. Being on the border of a low mesa country, the strong outside walls were, doubtless, found necessary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...wall was about 140 feet. That they belong to the community of the Cave-dwellers, and serve as their fortresses, councilchambers and places of worship, would seem to be natural and reasonable inferences. Being on the border of a low mesa country, the strong outside walls were, doubtless, found necessary to prevent incursions from that direction; while the little community, by means of ladders, was free to pass from dwelling to fortress without danger of molestation. (See fig. 7 ) A large group situated on this stream, about 10 miles above its mouth, was subsequently examined. In one place in particular, a picturesque out-standing promontory was full of dwellings, literally honey-combed by the earth-burrowing race; and as one from below views the ragged window-pierced crags, he is unconsciously led to wonder if they are not the ruins ofsome ancient castle, behind whose mouldering walls are hidden the dead secrets of a long-forgotten people. Hut a nearer a such fancies, for the windows prove to be only the doorways ipproach quickly dispels doorways to shallow and irregular apartments, hardly sufficiently commodious for a race of pigmies. Neither the outer openings or the apertures are large enough to allow a person of large stature to pass, and one is led to suspect that these nests were not the dwellings proper of these people, but occasional resorts for women and children, and that the somewhat extensive ruins below were their ordinary dwelling places. On the brink of a promontory above stands the ruins of a tower, still twelve feet high, and similar, in most respects, to those already described. These ruined towers are very numerous.' ANCIENT PUEBLO AND RUINED TOWERS ON THE Mc ELMO Mr. Holmes also discovered a group of ruins which mark...
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