-$16 REMARKS on THE ANCIENT’ works, &c. 
fite which, on the Virginia-fide, are extenfive works, 
which have been accurately traced by Colonel George 
Morgan, and I have been told there are remains of chim- 
neys, &c. 
The next works of note are on the Great-Miami, about 
twenty miles from its junction with the Ohio. A Mr. 
Wells, a gentlemen of nice obfervation and philofophical 
enquiry, who had viewed them, and hadalfo examined the 
works at Mufkingum, informed me, they were very fimi- 
lar, though he thought thefe more extenfive, the walls 
higher, and the ditches deeper, than thofe of Mufkingum. 
He alfo obferved, there were fimilar works on the Little- 
Miami, about twenty miles from its junction with the 
Ohio, which would be about the fame diftance from the 
remains laft.mentioned. 
Thefe are the only traces-of ancient works of which I 
have received fuch authentic information as will juftify me 
in reporting them as undoubted facts. Many other re- 
markable veftiges of antiquity have been defcribed to me, 
particularly, on the eaft fide of a {mall branch of the Big- 
Black, a river which empties itfelf into the Mifhiflippi, 
nearly in latitude 33. north, an elevation of earth.about 
half a mile fquare, fifteen or twenty feet high, from the 
north-eaft corner of which a wall of equal height, witha 
deep ditch, extends for near half a mile to the high lands. 
This information I had from the Chacktaw-Indians, who 
inhabit that country, and it isconfirmed by many white 
people, who refided with the Chacktaws, and had often been 
on the fpot. 
The tradition of the Chacktaws with refpect to this ele~ 
vation is as follows, viz. that in the midf€is a great cave, 
which is the houfe of the Great-Spirit ; that in that cave 
_ he.made the Chacktaws; that the country being then un- 
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