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Licking and Raccoon creeks, about twenty -five miles from 

 Zanesville. Within a short distance of it are some very- 

 fine remains of Indian works, which we were deprived 

 from seeing, having been misinformed as to their real 

 position ; but we had less cause to regret this, as an excel- 

 lent description of them has been published by Mr. Caleb 

 Atwater, whose zeal and activity in exploring those old 

 Indian works, have acquired for him a distinguished rank 

 among the antiquaries of America. From his account of 

 them, it would appear that these works must have covered 

 several miles of country, and that they were perhaps con- 

 nected with other works, situated at a distance, by parallel 

 walls extending over a space of thirty miles. Of the 

 labour bestowed upon them, an idea can be formed from 

 the circumstance, that among these works there " is a circu- 

 lar fort, containing about twenty-six acres, having a wall 

 around it, formed by the ground which was thrown out of 

 a deep ditch on the inner side of the wall ; this wall is now 

 from twenty-five to thirty feet in height." (Archaeol. Am. 

 i. 127.) 



In the vicinity of Newark we observed an orchard, every 

 tree of which was propped, having, as we were told, suf- 

 fered much from a violent south-westerly gale on Easter 

 Sunday of this year ; the fact would not have appeared to 

 us worthy of notice, but for the observation that this gale 

 of wind, which was felt very extensively throughout the 

 country, was observed to have a different direction in dif- 

 ferent places ; at Philadelphia it is known to have been 

 from the north-east. It may be a question, whether these 

 two gales were in any manner connected, and if so, why 

 they happened to proceed from different directions. 



At Newark the party fell in with Captain John Cleves 

 Symes, a man whose eccentric views on the nature of the 



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