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useful purposes for which enclosures are required, such as the limits of fields and 

 possessions, or the boundaries of villages. 



Number 6. — This work is situated near Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, 

 Kentucky ; and consists of a large truncated mound, twenty-five feet in height, 

 flanked on the north and west by narrow grades or slopes. It is connected with 

 a circular work, three hundred and fifty feet in diameter, by an elevated way or 

 terrace, one hundred feet long. The circle has a small mound in its centre, and 

 a gateway opening to the east. Three small mounds occur in close connection 

 with it. The plan is from the Rafinesque MSS. 



Lest these comparatively little works should appear insignificant, from the small 

 scale on which they are presented, it may be well enough to remark, that the 

 circle formed by the stones composing the gi-eat temple of Stonehenge is but a 

 little more than one hundred feet in diameter, and that most of the circular earth 

 and stone structures of the British islands are considerably less in size than those 

 here presented. 



PLATE XXXIII. No. 1.* 



This group of ancient works is situated on the west side of Brush creek, six 

 miles south-east of Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky. The work 

 indicated by the letter A is one hundred feet square, and is composed of a slight 

 embankment, with an interior ditch. There is an entrance from the east. The 

 elliptical mound C is about two hundred yards distant from A, towards the east. 

 It is nine feet high, two hundred and seventy feet in circumference, truncated, and 

 surmounted by a smaller conical mound. Another small mound is connected 

 with it, as shown in the plan. B is a circular work, five hundred and ten feet in 

 circumference, with a ditch interior to the wall, and a gateway opening towards the 

 east. The unexcavated ground in the interior is square in form, exhibiting an entire 

 identity in this feature with various works in Ohio. (See Plates XXII, XXIV.) 

 D is a hexagonal enclosure ; whole circumference three hundred feet, each side 

 fifty feet, with a gateway at the eastern corner. On the opposite side of Brush 

 creek is a large elliptical mound, E. This group occupies a broad, elevated plain. 

 Numerous other works occur in the same county. 



From the Ratinesque MSS. 



