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lar intervals, but looking towards the eight principal points of com- 

 pass. The one at the northwestern curve, just on the brow of the bluff, 

 is the widest, and may have been, the principal entrance. From it the 

 hill-side seems to have been graded down, forming a gradual and easy 

 descent to the river. Springs of excellent water come out of the face 

 of the bluff near the bottom all along the front of the fort. There has 

 been a heavy growth of pine in and around the fort. A pine stump 

 standing on the wall measures 3 feet in diameter, and the lumbermen 

 have cut several of equal size within the area. The lumbermen have 

 made a road, with a causeway of logs, along the springy hill-side, be- 

 tween the fort and the margin of the river, so that it is impossible to 

 tell now exactly the form of the face of the bluff, but have not destroyed 

 any portion of the earth-works. The river is about 50 feet wide, with 

 low, wooded land on the opposite side. 

 No. 2, the larger fort, is about half a mile distant from the smaller. 





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in a southeasterly direction. In form it is quite regularly egg-shaped, 

 the larger end being towards the west. Its long diameter, from east to 

 west, is 310 feet ; its short, from north to south, 270. It is a heavier 

 work than No 1, the ditch being broader and deeper and the wall of cor- 



