Account or ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS, Src. 21 § 
nothing was found more than I mentioned in thofe remarks. 
The works at Grave-Creck I have carefully viewed, but 
never traced the lines with fuch accuracy as to enable me 
to give youa plan. They are very extenfive, commen- 
cing about four miles below Grave-Creek, and continu- 
ing, at intermediate diftances, for ten or twelve miles, 
along the banks of the Ohio, The principal works are 
adjoining the big-grave, which is about halfa mile from 
the Ohio, and about the fame diftance north of the mouth 
of Grave-Creek. The works are very fimilar to thofe at 
the mouth of Mufkingum. The continuation of works 
each way confifts of {quare and circular redoubts, ditches, 
walls, and mounts, fcattered, at unequal diflances, in eve- 
ry direction, over extenfive flats. The big-grave, fo cal- 
led, has been opened, and human bones found in it; but 
not of an extraordinary fize; neither have I ever heard of 
bones of an extraordinary fize being found in any of thofe 
graves, many of which have been ‘opened, and general 
ly found to contain human bones, ! 
Thefe are the only confiderable remains which I have 
myfelf examined. The common mounts, or Indian graves, 
or monuments (for they are not always found to contain 
bones), are {cattered over the whole country, particularly 
along the Ohio, and its main branches: indeed, I have 
fearcely ever feenan handfome fituation on an high flat, 
adjoining any large ftream, where there were not fome 
of the above mentioned veftiges of antiquity. 
Travellers, whofe authority I depend on, inform me 
that on a branch of the Scioto, called Paint-Creek, are 
works much more confiderable than thofe at Grave-Creek, 
or Mufkingum, ¥ mount much larger, a greater variety of 
walls, ditches and enclofures, and covering a much oreat~ 
er extent of country; that they continue for nearly fixty 
miles along the Scioto to its junction with the Ohio, oppo- 
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