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According to Mr. Palmer, the ruins are situated about 60 miles north of Phoenix, Maricopa County, in a locality known as the Lower Verde Settlement. They are situated on the west bank of the river, on a mesa 125 feet high, and contain 175 contiguous rooms, on an average 30 feet long, 14 wide, and originally about 10 feet high. The floors are of clay, and the walls built of irregular pieces of stone laid up with mud. The roofs were made of cedar joists covered with mud, and the entrance to the rooms was from the top. Two rooms only were connected by a door-way. The cedar joists had been cut with stone tools. The [[insert]] fragile [[/insert]] articles on the floors were in fragments, owing to the destruction of the roofs and walls by fire, and there was an accumulation of ashes and clay with impressions of grass, poles, and sticks. Below the floors were found human skeletons with pottery and other articles. The bodies seem to have been interred without regard to the points of the compass, and in some graves the clay vessels, etc., were placed near the head, in others near the head and the sides.

The people formerly inhabiting this building obtained their supply of water from the Rio Verde, as shown by still existing ditches, in some places 5 feet deep. The Pimas have a tradition, that they drove the people from this locality into New Mexico.

Collection from adobe ruins, 2 1/2 miles from Mesa City, Maricopa County: Chipped quartzite discs, cutting-tools,