 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 Seiten
...that is to be mentioned. The canon through the Mesa Verde is on an average two hundred yards wide, and from six hundred to a thousand feet deep, with...Small buildings, not more than eight feet square, Avere often found standing alone apparently." The high central portion suggests a terraced structure... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1875 - 62 Seiten
...general characteristics held good ; the great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of debris, a central mass considerably higher and more massive...subdivided squares. Small buildings, not more than 8 feet square, were often found standing alone apparently ; no trace of any other being detected in... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1876 - 738 Seiten
...general characteristics held good; the great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of débris, a central mass considerably higher and more massive...subdivided squares. Small buildings, not more than 8 feet square, were often found standing alone apparently ; no trace of any other being detected in... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1876 - 748 Seiten
...general characteristics held • good ; the great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of débris, a central mass considerably higher and more massive...subdivided squares. Small buildings, not more than 8 feet square, were often found standing alone apparently ; no trace of any other being detected in... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1878 - 602 Seiten
...canon, ruins were found on all sides, the great majority consisting of heaps of debris, with always a central mass considerably higher and more massive...than the surrounding lines of subdivided squares. Square buildings, not more than eight feet square, were often found standing alone, apparently, no... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1896 - 666 Seiten
...same general characteristics held good, the great majority of the rums consisting of heaps of debris, a. central mass considerably higher and more massive...than the surrounding lines of subdivided squares. We now commenced to note another peculiar feature. Upon our right, the long slopes of protruding strata... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 834 Seiten
...that is to be mentioned. The canon through the Mesa Verde is on an average two hundred yards wide, and from six hundred to a thousand feet deep, with...by ten feet, was of sandstone blocks, about seven by twelve inches, and four inches thick, laid in what seemed to be adobe mortar. Somewhat further down... | |
 | Emory Adams Allen - 1885 - 838 Seiten
...same general characteristics held goo.d. The great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of debris a central mass considerably higher and more massive...square, were often found standing alone apparently, no trace of any other being detected in their immediate neighborhood." We would call especial attention... | |
 | Emory Adams Allen - 1887 - 860 Seiten
...same general characteristics held good. The great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of debris a central mass considerably higher and more massive...square, were often found standing alone apparently, no trace of any other being detected in their immediate neighborhood." We would call especial attention... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet - 1899 - 498 Seiten
...same general characteristics held good, the great majority of the ruins consisting of heaps of debris, a. central mass considerably higher and more massive...than the surrounding lines of subdivided squares. We now commenced to note another peculiar feature. Upon our right, the long slopes of protruding strata... | |
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For four or five miles after entering the canon, the shapeless heaps of adobe debris were of frequent occurrence on the banks of the stream. The general characteristic was "a central mass considerably higher and more massive than the surrounding lines... 
