1891.] 



NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



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in all about two feet thick, eight feet high, and about sixteen 

 feet of its length, as measured from the north end, was covered 

 with the letters, arranged in wavy, nearly parallel and diagonal 

 lines. The wall was traced and examined in many places for a dis- 

 tance of nearly a thousand feet, its coarse marked on the surface 

 by stones like No. 1, projecting a few inches above the surface of the 

 ground, and twenty-five or thirty feet apart. Seventy-five feet of 

 the south end of the wall was bent at an angle of 15°"to 20° east. 

 The wall ended in a hollow of the hill. 



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In March, 1891, the Cleveland Express printed a short 

 of the discovery, written by Mr. Carson of that place, who 

 the wall. In the Sunday Sun, New York, June 7th, I pu 

 short notice of the find, with engravings made from my 

 made at the place, May 21st. The engravings in this ar 

 from my sketches corrected by photographs. 



The stone is dark-red sandstone, and the wall lies along 

 of a ridge of that kind of stone which trends north 

 flanked by limestone east and west, and 



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