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summit, to people it with the strange priesthood of ancient superstition, and fill its 

 avenues and line its walls with the thronging devotees ot" a mysterious worship. 

 Whatever may have been the divinity of their belief, order, symmetry, and design 

 were among his attributes; if, as appears most likely, the works that most strongly 

 exhibit these features were dedicated to religious purposes, and Avere symbolical 

 in their design. 



About one mile to the west of this work are a number of mounds, some of 

 considerable size, and also a small circular work, D, of exquisite symmetry and 

 proportion. It consists of an embankment of earth five feet high by thirty feet base, 

 with an interior ditch twenty-five feet across by six feet deep, enclosing an area 

 ninety feet in diameter, in the centre of which rises a mound eight feet high by 

 forty feet base. A narrow gateway through the parapet, and a causeway over the 

 ditch, lead to the enclosed mound. 



Fin. 19— CIRCLE AND MOUND, GREENUP COUNT V, KENTUCKY. 



The above view, taken on the spot, will illustrate the appearance of this class 

 of works. Nothing can exceed their regularity and beauty, when clothed with 

 turf or covered with forest trees. 



PLATE XXIX. No. 1. 



ANCIENT WORKS, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO.* 



These works are situated on the east bank of the Great Miami river, six miles 

 below Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio. They are built upon the second bottom 

 or terrace, which is here nearly a mile broad, and elevated about twenty feet above 

 the river. The plan of the group coincides very nearly with tiiat of some of the 



* From flic Siiivoy aiul Nutps oI'.Iwif.s McRkiuk. Esq. 



