Excerpt from On the Ruins of a Stone Pueblo on the Animas River in New Mexico: With a Ground Plan Show the forms of the rooms with plain traces of the original walls here and there; and excavations, made by curious settlers, have opened a number of rooms in the ground storv of one of the wings. These we entered and measured. Some of the rooms were faced with stone, 1. E. We found a stone wall regularly laid up, as was the case in the main building, as will elsewhere be shown. Some of the walls in these rooms were of cobble stone and adobe; others were of stone with natural faces and cobble stone intermixed. We saw no wall of adobe brick alone. The fallen walls formed a mass about twelve feet deep over the Site of the wings, being the deepest on the outside, and thinning out on the court Side. The mass of material used in the construction of these edifices was very great, and surprises the beholder. It is explained in part by the thickness of the walls. We measured a number of them. They were 2 feet 4 inches; 2 feet 6 inches; 2 feet 9 inches; 3 feet, and in rare cases 3 feet 6 inches thick. None measured less than 2 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.