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N°. XXV. 
4 letter from Major ‘onathan Heart, to Benjansin Smith 
Barton, M. D. Correfponding member of the Society of 
the Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the American 
Philofophical Society, and Profeffor of Natural Hiftory and 
Botany in theUniverfity of Pennfylvania, containing 
cbfervaiions on the Ancient Works of Art, the Native In= 
habitants, ©'c. of the Weftern-Country. 
Fort-Harmar, 5th January, 1791. 
SIR, 
pened GREEABLE to promife, I now enter on 
3) 1792. the different fubjeQ's of enquiry contained 
in your favour of the 24th of January laft, but find myfelf 
unable to give that fatisfaCtory information which the na- 
ture of your work may probably require: however, fuch 
obfervations, as opportunity has enabled me to make, I 
am. happy in laying before you. 
With refpect to ANCIENT WORKS. Thofe at the mouth of 
the Mufkingum are the only veftiges of any confiderable 
works I have very particularly attended to, a plan of which, 
with fome remarks, is publifhed in the Columbian Maga- 
zine. Thofe remarks, not having been made under an 
expectation of their being publifhed, were not fo accurate 
as | could now with they had been; but improvements 
having fince been made over the whole extent of the works, 
no very confiderable inveftigation has fince been made. 
We did, at that time, open the big mount and fome of the 
graves, dig into the caves, on the walls, elevated fquares, 
and at different places within the compajfs of the works, but 
nothing 
