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This opinion accounts for all the characters which we ob- 

 serve about it. Its situation near the main fort at the cen- 

 tre of the works ; its smaller dimensions, which, while they 

 would admit a considerable force, would permit it to be 

 defended more easily than the extensive works with which 

 it is connected : the height and thickness of its parapet con- 

 firm this belief. The cii'cumstance of there being no gate- 

 way, is an additional proof for us, that it was intended to 

 be used like the citadel of a modern fortress, as the last spot 

 in which the remnants of a defeated army might be con- 

 centrated in order to make a decisive stand against their 

 aggressors. 



Proceeding in a direction south sixty-five degrees east 

 from the first work, at a distance of about seven hundred 

 and sixty feet we find another fortification, (B.) which, 

 like the former, is partly situated in a ploughed field, but 

 which passes also over a bye-road. In this old work, the 

 white man has built his barns, stables, &c. and appears 

 anxious to hurry on the destruction of what would, if un- 

 injured by him, have resisted the assaults of time. The 

 parapet of this fort is not quite so elevated as that of the 

 former ; its dimensions are larger, being a|)out two hun- 

 dred and twenty -five feet in diameter ; it has a gateway 

 fronting that in the first fort, and similar to it. If any 

 covered way ever existed by which these two works were 

 connected, it has disappeared, no trace of it bein^ at pre- 

 sent visible. 



Taking again the first fort, (A.) as a centre, and proceed- 

 ing from it in a course north eighty-five degrees east, we 

 find another circular enclosure, (C.) distant seven hundred 

 and fifty feet from the first, and about five hundred and 

 forty feet in a northerly course from the second ; its para- 

 pets are higher than those of the other two; its diameter 



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