also east of the works which is about half way between them, the ravines 

 being one quarter of a mile apart. The large work is about 200 feet south 

 of the brink of the river bluff, and one arm of a small ravine north of it 

 comes up close to the west side of the principal work in the group of 

 three. At the base of the bluff and in the east and smaller ravine there 

 are a number of large, bold, running- springs of chalybeate water. The 

 bluff is composed of clay, sand and gravel, the sand and gravel being at 

 the base, and out of this the water flows. 



"The Mounds," as they are usually called, are in a forest of oak, beech, 

 walnut and ash timber. Some very large trees grew on the embank- 

 ments ; among others, several walnut, which have been cut off. < )ne, four 

 feet in diameter, the stump of which is now gone, grew on the work first 

 described, lying northwest of the large one. 



The works still remain covered with a growth of timber in no respects 

 differing from the adjoining forest. 



In the bottom of the ditch on the east side of the large work there lies 

 a granite boulder about three feet in diameter, apparently where left when 

 the ditch was being dug. 



The river and the ravines on each side afford excellent drainage, and 

 the thick layer of leaves protect the embankment from erosion. The 

 embankments being so heavy, the water that gathers within is not able 

 to force its way through, and no gullies or washes have occurred ; in fact, 

 the whole system, especially the large work, is in an excellent state of 

 preservation and seemingly as perfect as when abandoned by the Builders. 



About ten years ago, the writer, in company with Dr. Joseph Tingley, 

 then of Asbury University, made an excavation in the center of the 

 mound in the main works. At a depth of about four feet we found a bed 

 of ashes, charcoal, and burned bones, the bones crumbling on exposure to 

 the atmosphere. Dr. Tingley claimed they were not human bones, but of 

 some small animal. We found no stone or any arrangement of the earth 

 in the form of an altar, and the fire seemed to have been there before the 

 mound was built above it. The earth was baked and reddened by the 

 action of the intense heat of the same. < >ver this the mound was then 

 built as indicated. We dug down about two feet below this stratum, but 

 found no further evidence of fire or any unusual arrangement of earth, 

 nor any evidence that the same had been disturbed, further than in the 

 construction of the central area, which had been filled as before men- 

 tioned. 



