It is possible that the second row, from S. to N., had two superposed chambers, but I am not positive of it, and therefore do not include it in the computation of rooms which will follow.
It will be seen that, according to the ground plan and sections, the east wing had five stories, the north wing two, the west wing successively two, three, and four, and the south wing four. Looking at the buildings from the great court, the south presented an unbroken front of a two-story wall, the east [p. 79] successively walls of four, three, and two stories; the north side formed two, and the west side, from north to south, in succession, two, three, and four terraces. In this manner, not only was the building remarkably well accommodated to the great irregularities of the surface, but even a tolerably uniform height was attained, well agreeing, therefore, with the description of "Cicuyé," as Castañeda saw it in 1540. "The houses have four stories, terraced roofs all of the same height, along which one can make the circuit of the entire village without meeting any street to intercept the passage.[123] Here we must remember that the widest gateway is 4 m.—13 ft.—wide,—an expanse easily spanned by common beams used by the Indians in their house architecture.
An attempt to compute the number of rooms in A results as follows:—
| Rectangle f f e e, 18 longitudinal rows of 6 rooms and 5 stories. | |||
| 1st story | 18 | ||
| 2d story 5 × 18 | 90 | ||
| 3d story 4 × 18 | 72 | ||
| 4th story 3 × 18 | 54 | ||
| 5th story 2 × 18 | 36 | ||
| 270 rooms. | |||
| (d d c c) | 1st story and 2d story on the slope,and 3 rooms per row. | ||
| 1st story | 3 | ||
| 2d story | 3 | ||
| 3d story 4 × 3 | 12 | ||
| 4th story 3 × 3 | 9 | ||
| 5th story 2 × 6 | 6 | ||
| 33 " | |||
| Carried forward | 303 rooms. |
| Brought forward | 303 rooms. |
| (b b a B) | 6 rows of 4 rooms, and 3 stories on the slope. | ||
| 1st, 2d, 3d story, each 4 | 12 | ||
| 4th story 3 × 4 | 12 | ||
| 5th story 2 × 4 | 8 | ||
| 32 " | |||
| (North wing) | 2 stories, easily computed as | 20 " | |
| (k m l l) | 1st story 5 × 4 | 20 | |
| 2d story 5 × 2 | 10 | ||
| 30 " | |||
| (l l h h K) | Lowest story | 12 | |
| 2d story 12 × 4 | 48 | ||
| 3d story 12 × 2 | 24 | ||
| 84 " | |||
| (h h K g g I) | Lowest story | 4 | |
| 2d story | 4 | ||
| 3d story 4 × 4 | 16 | ||
| 4th story 4 × 2 | 8 | ||
| 32 " | |||
| (South wing) | From E. to W. | ||
| Lowest story | 7 | ||
| 2d story | 7 | ||
| 3d story 7 × 3 | 21 | ||
| 4th story 7 × 2 | 14 | ||
| 49 " | |||
| Adding for the southern annex a probable number of | 35 " | ||
| Building A contained in all not less than | 585 cells. | ||
Turning now to the inside of the building itself, I am compelled to acknowledge here an important omission in my survey of B. It relates to the vertical connection of the walls. They are all, with few exceptions, as far as their dilapidated condition admits of observation, continuous from bottom to top; that is, the sides were everywhere carried up above the ceiling (or floor), and then, after the beams had been embedded in the stones, another wall was piled up on it as straight[p. 81] as possible. In this manner it became possible to add each cell separately.