Identification of tJic But is h Inch as the Unit of Measure. 149 



Add together 1050 and 1080, and we have 2130. Divide this 

 number by 6 and we have 355. We all know that 355 is the pe- 

 culiar number, which, related to 113, gives in integrals the closest 

 approximate numerical relation of diameter to circumference of a 

 circle ever discovered in modern times, until John A. Parker found 

 that of 6561 : 20612. And this seems to be the intended teaching 

 of this group of the Mound Works.* It affords the numbers by 

 which the geometrical relations of squares and circles can be in. 

 terchangeably related or compared ; while the other groups make 

 such relations and comparisons, by the units of the standard prac- 

 tically adopted for actual measure. Which units refer to a basis of 

 numbers by which measures of space and time may be correlated 

 on squares and circles. The whole scheme, so far as geometry 

 and numbers are concerned, is one which would naturally develop 

 with all or any parts of the human race, independently of location, 

 climate or family. That which could not be so developed would 

 be the practical unit of measure adopted by which all relations 

 might be shown in constructed works. We may adopt it as a tru. 

 ism that all peoples making use of this practical unit of measure 

 must have derived it from a common source. The Mounti Build- 

 ers possessed it, so did the Old Egyptians, Hebrews, Romans, 

 and, in modern times, the British people. 



Group V. 



This somewhat long and analytical investigation can now be 

 appropriately closed with a description of the famous Newark 

 Works, Licking County, Ohio, Plate 25, p. 67 ; upon the detailed 

 measures of which the greatest pains were bestowed by Mr. 

 Charles Whittlesey, Mr E. G. Squier, and Dr. E. H. Davis. 



*While 1130 denotes a diameter to a circumference ot 355x10, if 1130 be taVien ns a 

 cii'cumference value, it will in whole numbers indicate (with a decimal expression) a 

 diameter of 360. With the Egyptians the Hebrew term Pharaoh was the number 355, 

 the lunar year; which year was with the Hebrews the word SliavaJi, wliich carried this 

 numerical value in the value of the word, while with both Egyptians and Hebrews they 

 had the year of 360 days. The smaller Innar year of 354 days was "Pharaoh's 

 daughter," 



