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supplementary plan N. Its walls are about four feet liigli, and its outlines 

 beautifully distinct.* 



It is impossible to resist the conviction that some significance attaches to these 

 singular forms. 



PLATE XXV. 



THE NEWARK WORKS, LICKING COUNTY, OlllO.t 



The very extensive and complicated series of works here presented occur at 

 the junction of the South and Raccoon forks of Licking river, one mile west of 

 the town of Newark, Licking county, Ohio. Like those at Marietta, the works 

 in question occupy a high fertile plain. This plain is here of great extent, and 

 elevated from thirty to fifty feet above the alluvions bordering the streams : it is 

 for the most part level, but in places broken and undulating. 



These works are so complicated, that it is impossible to give anything like a 

 comprehensible description of them. The plan, with the illustrative supplementary 

 plans and sections, will furnish a better conception, as a whole and in detail, than 

 could be afforded in any other way. It will be the object of the text to supply 

 such information as cannot be obtained from the plan. 



The group covers an extent of about two miles square, and consists, as will be 

 observed, of three grand divisions, connected by parallels and works of a minor 

 character. The walls of the parallels, and of the irregular portions of the works 

 generally, as well as of the small circles, (of which there are a considerable 

 number,) are very slight ; for the most part not exceeding four feet in height. 



* There .are some singular structures in Sweden, whicli coincide very nearly with this remarkable little 

 work. They arc; circles composed of upright stones, having short avenues of approach upon each side, 

 fipposite each other, in the manner here represented. See SJ'dborg^s SumriiKjiir for Nonkns Fornah- 

 kfire, 1822. 



t A number of plans of these works, as well as of those at Marietta, have been published ; but they 

 ai-e all very defective, and fail to convey an accurate conception of the group. The map here given 

 is from an original and very careful and minute survey made in 1836, by CnA.s. Whiitlesev, Esq., 

 Topographical Engineer of the State of Ohio, corrected and verified by careful re-suneys and admea- 

 surements by the authois. It may be relied upon as strictly correct. A large portion of the more 

 complicated diWsion of the group has, within the past few years, been almost completely di^molishcd, so 

 tlial the lines can no longer be satisfactorily traced. It is to be hoped that care may be taken to preserve 

 the remainder from a like fate. The principal structures will always resist the reducing action of the 

 plough ; but, from present indications, the connecting lines and smaller works will soon be levelled to the 

 surface, and leave but a scanty and doubtful trace of their former symmetry. 



A sectional map of the Newark valley is given in a subsequent plate, on which tlie relative positions 

 of tliis and other works of the vicinitv ari' indicated with approximate accuracy. 



