The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

PENASCA-BLAiCA.
showing the same style of architecture, and built of the
same kind of material, are more extensive than those already
described; there are four stories now standing, and one
hundred and twenty-four rooms occupied the ground
floor. Many of these rooms are in an excellent state of
preservation, the walls still having upon them their coating,
or plaster.
The most extensive of these northern ruins are those of
the pueblo of Penasca-Blanca, which differs from the others
in the arrangement of the stones composing its walls; those
of the other pueblos were of uniform character, in the
several beds or layers composing them, but in these there
is a regular alternation of large and small stones, the
effect of which is )both unique and beautiful.
The largest of these stones are about one foot in length
and six inches in thickness, forming but a single bed; alternating with these are four or five beds of small stones,
about an inch in thickness.
The general plan of the buildings seems to have been
about the same; the number of rooms traceable upon the
ground floor of this pueblo is one hundred and thirty-four,
while the existing walls show it to have been five stories
in height.
In no single instance was either a chimney or fireplace
found among the ruins, nor were there any indications of
the presenoe or use of iron in their construction. Quan
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