A large edifice, the principal room in the center being four stories
high, and those adjoining it on its four sides three stories, with
walls 2 varas thick, of strong argamaso y baro (adobe) so smooth on
the inside that they resemble planed boards, and so polished that
they shine like Puebla pottery.

[Footnote 1: An English translation is given by H. H. Bancroft,
Works, iv, p. 622, note. Also by Bartlett, Personal Narrative, 1854,
vol. ii, pp. 281-282; another was published by Schoolcraft, Hist.
Cond. and Pros. of Am. Ind., vol. iii, 1853, p. 301.]

[Footnote 2: Quite an extensive list is given by Bancroft
(op. cit., pp. 622-625, notes), and by Bandelier in Papers Arch.
Inst. of Amer., American series, i, p. 11, note.]

Mange also gives some details of construction, and states that in the
immediate vicinity there were remains of twelve other buildings, the
walls half fallen and the roofs burned out.

Following Mange's account there were a number of descriptions of no
special value, and a more useful one written by Padre Font, who in 1775
and 1776 made a journey to Gila and Colorado rivers and beyond. This
description[1] is quite circumstantial and is of especial interest
because it formed the basis of nearly all the accounts written up to the
time when that country came into our possession. According to this
authority--

The house forms an oblong square, facing exactly the four cardinal
points, and round about it there are ruins indicating a fence or
wall which surrounded the house and other buildings. The exterior or