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elements. The wall has been thrown down, yet its regularity is perfectly 

 preserved. The following are the measurements : From a to e (inside 

 to inside of wall), 32 feet ; b to d (inside to inside of wall), 32 feet ; b to 

 c, 125 feet; e to d to c, 165 feet; a to b to c, 165 feet; thickness of wall 

 across base at c, 21 feet ; thickness of wall across base at A;, 24 feet ; also 

 same at p. Height of stone wall, 2 feet. From a to e the wall is com- 

 posed of earth, is 8 inches in height and 7 feet in breadth. The floor 

 on the interior of this work is perfectly level. 



Fifty-two feet due north-east of this work is a section of a circle (A). 

 The wall has been plowed over, and will not average over 1 foot in 

 height by 22 feet across. The distance from g to/, following the curve, 

 is 225 feet, and on a straight line 130 feet. 



Two hundred and eighty-five feet due east of a {B) is a mound 3 feet 

 high and 22 feet diameter. 



At a distance of one-fourth of a mile northeast of (A) is another mound 

 located upon a hill, but not having a commanding view of the country, 

 nor of the works just described. 



It is fair to assume that the works near Winchester, those of Eagle 

 Township, and the ones just described, belonged to the same people. 

 There is no evidence that they were constructed in different ages and 

 by different people. The nearness of the structures to each other, and 

 their evidently unfinished condition point to the same time and the same 

 people. On a straight line some 6 or 8 miles east is the Great Serpent 

 Mound. This is removed a distance of about 5 miles from "Fort Hill," 

 in Brush Creek Township, Highland County, Ohio. This work has 

 been figured and described* in "Ancient Monuments," with the addi- 

 tional information that " no other remains, except perhaps a few small, 

 scattered mounds, in its vicinity." Near the southern foot of the hill 

 upon which the fort is located is a series of circular works, now almost 

 obliterated. 



It is a fair assumption that the builders of " Fort Hill" and the circles 

 near it belonged to a clan separate, yet related to the one that con- 

 structed the works near Winchester. 



Now, the so-called "serpent efiigy" is composed of a frog, an egg, and 

 a serpent. Why may not one of these clans have been the frog, and 

 the other the serpent, or snake; and the series of the effigies represent 

 that the snake clan came from the frog? 



Ancient remains in Glarke County, Ohio. — On May 23, 1885, in com- 

 l)any with Prof. J. W. Freeman, I visited the works located on the land 

 of Benjamin Newlove, section 29, Harmony Township, Clarke County, 

 Ohio. When these works were first discovered only saplings were grow- 

 ing upon them. The works are situated on the side of a hill descending 

 towards the northeast (see Plan 4). The larger work is oblong, the 

 longest diameter being 320 feet, and the transverse 250 feet. The gate- 

 way a 6 is 33 feet; the entire wall is 821 feet long ; the wall at d is 7 feet 



* "Aucieut Monuments," page 14. 



