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MAP-SHOWING DIFFERENT PUEBLO DISTRICTS.

The following map shows the districts represented in the territory visited by the American explorers. They are as follows:

I. The first includes the district on the Rio Grande.

II. The second is situated upon the Chaco, where are the remarkable ruins represented in the cuts, and which are described in this book by Lieutenant Simpson, W. H. Jackson, J.T. Bickford and others.

III. The third is in the valley of San Juan, the McElmo, the Hovenweep, the Mancos, the Montezuma and other streams, and is characterized by the ruins of the cliff dwellings.

IV. The fourth is situated upon the Rio de Chelly, where are the remains

of ancient pueblos, cliff fortresses and cliff villages which resemble those on the Mancos and San Juan. It includes the district drained by the Rio Verde on which are the remarkable series of cavate houses, irrigating ditches, ancient boulder cites, stone pueblos and the two cliff dwellings called "Montezuma Castle" and "Montezuma Wells." It includes also the cavate houses and pueblos found in the ancient cones about the San Francisco Mountains.

V. The fifth district is situated upon the Gila Kier and its tributaries, and includes the ancient ruins of Casa Grande and the scattered villages and irrigating ditches which have been described by Mr. F. H. Cashing and others of the Hemingway expedition.

VI. The sixth district is situated upon the southern borders of the pueblo territory and embraces the cavate houses among the potreros west of the Rio Grande, also the ancient ruins of the deserted villages and ancient Spanish settlements along the northern borders of Texas.

VII. There is one other district not represented on the map which is situated in Sonora, Mexico, and contains the ancient ruins of the Casas Grandes described by Mr. Bartlett and others.