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.

CASAS GRANDES, CHIHUAHUA.
being constructed of three stories, and without entrance to
the first floor.
Unlike ally other ruins in New Mexico, save those of the
Gran Quivera, water was conveyed to the pueblo from a
spring some distance away, by means of an aqueduct. A
large watch-tower, called by some "Castle Janos," stands
about a league to the southwest of the town, commanding
a wide extent of country, while along the banks of the
stream are many mounds, in which weapons of stone, with
many earthen vessels, handsomely painted, have been
found.
Bartlett, in his "Personal Narrative," says: "The ruins of
Casas Grandes in Chihuahua face the cardinal points, and
consist of fallen and erect walls, the latter varying in height
from five to thirty feet, projecting above the portions of ruins
which have crumbled to decay. Were the heights estimated
from the foundations, it would be much greater, particularly
those of the centre point of the building, where the fallen
walls and rubbish form a mound more than twenty feet
above the ground. If, therefore, the highest walls now
standing have their foundations on the lowest level, their
probable height was more than fifty feet. I concluded that
the outer portion of the buildings was the lowest, about one
story high, while the central ones, judging from the height
of the walls now standing, and the accumulation of rubbish,
were probably from three to six stories.
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