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Fig. 63. 



Fig. 63. This remarkable mound or terrace 

 occurs near Lovedale, Woodford county, 

 Kentucky. It is octagonal in form, meas- 

 uring one hundred and fifty feet on each side. 

 It has three graded ascents, one at each of the 

 northern angles and one at the middle of the 

 Avestern side. It is but little more than five feet 

 in height. Upon it are two conical mounds, 

 as shown in the plan, and also the dwelling 

 house of the proprietor. Some distance to 

 the northward of this terrace are a number of 

 large and deep pits, from which the material 

 for its construction was probably taken.* 



Fig. 64. The plan of this mound or terrace sufficiently ^^^ 

 explains its character. It is situated three miles from ^^ 

 Washington, Mason county, Kentucky. Its height is ten 

 feet.t 



No sooner do we arrive in the Southern States, than "^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 we find these Teocalli-shaped structm-es constituting the fio. 64. 



most numerous and important portion of the ancient remains. They preserve very 

 nearly the same form with those already described, but are generally of greater 

 size, and enter into many new combinations. E.vamples of a considerable number 

 have already been given in the chapter on the " Monuments of the Southern 

 States." Here they often occur entirely separate from enclosures of any sort, 

 and are frequently placed with a great deal of regularity in respect to each other. 

 It sometimes happens that a large truncated mound is surrounded by a series of 

 smaller ones, so as to form an ellipse, circle, square, or parallelogram.:}: In some 

 instances the various mounds of a group are connected with each other by raised 

 ways or terraces. 



Many of the temple mounds of the South are circular ; most have graded ascents, 

 and a few have a low wall enclosing the level area at their tops. In Macon and 

 Cherokee counties. North Carolina, quite a number, answering to this description, 

 are said to exist. A very remarkable one occurs near the town of Franklin, on 

 the Tennessee river, and another not far from the town of Murphy, on Valley 



* Rafinesqie MSS. The survey of thi.s singular monument purports to liiiv<> boon madi- in 18'2o 

 The then proprietor was a Mr. Ship. Ilic position of whose residence is shown in tlie plan. 



t R.\KiNKs„i K MSS., 1818 



J Mounds phiced in tliis manner are of occasional occunence in the more northern States. Jlxamples 

 have been remarked in Illinois and Missouii. Twelve miles south-west of the town of Glasgow, Barren 

 county, Kentucky, a group is found. The mounds are small, oval, and placed at intervals of about liflv 

 yards, so as to constitute a ciicle of perhaps lifteen hundred feet in circunifeicnce. In the centre of tin? 

 circular area is a large mound between twenty and tliirty feet in hciLfhl. These mounds appear lo liave 

 sustained structures of some kind. — C.illinss hvnhirhij. p. 176. 



