The Land of the Cliff Dwellers
The Land of the Cliff Dwellers
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103 limits and size of the village or city, for it was of considerable extent. Tumbled-down walls cover a large field. Whether these structures were de- stroyed by an invader, or have simply crumbled of themselves, no one knows.
Such ruins are numerous in this region. The best specimens remaining are those at Aztec Springs, in the Montezuma Valley, the one next west of the Mancos. These are said to be the most extensive remains yet found in Colorado. Mr. William H. Holmes published in 1878 an a...ccount of his visit to them. According to his measurements, one of the structures is eighty feet wide, one hundred feet long, and, as then stand- ing, twelve to fifteen feet high. The largest house measures one hundred and eighty feet in width, by two hundred feet in length. " The whole group covers an area of about 480, 000 square feet, and has an average depth of from three to four feet. This would give in the vicin- ity of 1, 500, 000 solid feet of stone-work. The stone is chiefly of the fossiliferous limestone that outcrops along the base of the Mesa Verde, a mile or more away, and its transportation to this place was doubtless a toilsome work for a people so totally without facilities.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
103 limits and size of the village or city, for it was of considerable extent. Tumbled-down walls cover a large field. Whether these structures were de- stroyed by an invader, or have simply crumbled of themselves, no one knows.
Such ruins are numerous in this region. The best specimens remaining are those at Aztec Springs, in the Montezuma Valley, the one next west of the Mancos. These are said to be the most extensive remains yet found in Colorado. Mr. William H. Holmes published in 1878 an a...ccount of his visit to them. According to his measurements, one of the structures is eighty feet wide, one hundred feet long, and, as then stand- ing, twelve to fifteen feet high. The largest house measures one hundred and eighty feet in width, by two hundred feet in length. " The whole group covers an area of about 480, 000 square feet, and has an average depth of from three to four feet. This would give in the vicin- ity of 1, 500, 000 solid feet of stone-work. The stone is chiefly of the fossiliferous limestone that outcrops along the base of the Mesa Verde, a mile or more away, and its transportation to this place was doubtless a toilsome work for a people so totally without facilities.
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