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���A cliff dweller's house. Dis- coveries in this region have been remarkable. Two brothers out hunting stray cattle, once pene- trated through dense scrub to a canon's edge. There, in the opposite cliff before their aston- ished eyes, lay a whole city. The dry air had preserved it well through the thousands of years

��What remains of the large vil- lage of Puye, in the Frijoles Canon, in New Mexico. This is one of the most interesting and picturesquely located of the many prehistoric ruins on the Mesa (plateau) . The small holes supported timbers used for porches. The region round- about abounds in curios

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