Small huts for storage were found there in the cliffs, and on a promontory, about thirty feet above the water, were the ruins of stone buildings, one of which, twelve by twenty feet in dimensions, had walls still standing about six feet high.

The canyon here was some six hundred feet wide; the walls about nine hundred feet high, though the top of the plateau through which the canyon is carved is at least fifteen hundred feet above the river.

We discovered the trail by which the old Puebloans had made their way in and out.

Where necessity called for it, poles and tree-trunks had been placed against the rocks to aid the climbers.

Some of our party trusted themselves to these ancient ladders, and with the aid of a rope also, reached the summit.
Beyond this place of ruins, the river flowed between walls not over four hundred and fifty feet apart at the top.