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in all about two feet thick, eight feet high, and about sixteen 
feet of its length, as measured from the north end, was covered 
with the letters, arranged in wavy, nearly parallel and diagonal 
lines. The wall was traced and examined in many places for a dis- 
tance of nearly a thousand feet, its course marked on the surface 
by stones like No. 1, projecting a few inches above the surface of the 
ground, and twenty-five or thirty feet apart. Seventy-five feet of 
the south end of the wall was bent at an angle of 15° to 20° east. 
The wall ended in a hollow of the hill. 
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In March, 1891, the Cleveland Express printed a short account 
of the discovery, written by Mr. Carson of that place, who had seen 
the wall. In the Sunday Sun, New York, June 7th, I published a 
short notice of the find, with engravings made from my sketches 
made at the place, May 21st. The engravings in this article are 
from my sketches corrected by photographs. 
The stone is dark-red sandstone, and the wall lies along the crest 
of a ridge of that kind of stone which trends north and south, 
flanked by limestone east and west, and extending from the Hia- 
