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When all débris was removed so the ground could be inspected, 
the distance from the northeast corner, outside, to a point where it 
seemed the northwest corner should be was 224 feet; to a similar 
point at the southeast corner, 484 feet. When the condition of the 
remains is considered, these figures do not differ greatly from those 
given by Beck. Measuring outwardly at right angles from the point 
at which the two walls met (at the ends of the pick and shovel, 
pl. 14, b), the width of the east wall was 6 feet; of the north wall, 4 
feet. 
In plate 14, 6 are shown the outside of the north wall and the top 
of the east wall, looking south from the outside. 
It is apparent that the bottom layer, whatever its breadth, rested 
on the surface of the ground, and that the wall was not laid up either 
vertically or longitudinally in a manner more symmetrical or accurate 
than is possible with rough slabs having a wide variation in shapes and 
sizes. Moreover, it is said in the text that the walls were partially 
demolished before the sketch was made. In view of these facts, it 
would seem clear that Mr. Giddings saw only a portion of the strue- 
ture and that his drawing as given by Beck is largely conjectural. 
Instead of separate stones being shown as they would actually 
appear in form and dimensions, Beck’s figure is its own witness that 
spaces to represent each rock are marked off along nearly parallel 
lines. Furthermore, the walls are represented as standing upright 
instead of being flat on the ground; limestone slabs of irregular 
shapes, even if set up edgewise, could not have such symmetrical, 
brick-like outlines. Indeed, it is quite likely that the original sketch, 
made on the spot, was rather crude, its present finished appearance 
being such as would accord with the ideas of a draftsman who drew 
the stones after the conventional manner of text-books. 
Jol. Richard Hawkins, of Louisiana, says he first saw this work 
in 1867, and that the ‘wall’? was then 2 feet high in some places. 
On the other hand, Mr. Homer Reed, whose father formerly owned 
the land, says he has a distinct recollection of it since 1868, and that 
it was not then essentially different from what it is now—a pile of 
rocks without any regularity, and certainly without resemblance to 
a wall at any point. He was present on more than one occasion 
when his father was excavating in the cairn which, first and last, he 
did pretty thoroughly, finding some eight or ten skeletons rather 
close together, but each in its own ‘‘grave.’’ These were lying on 
the surface (a dug grave would be impossible in this rock), covered 
or protected by rocks set along the sides of each body and inclined 
inward at the top. Probably this position of the protecting rocks 
gave rise to the idea of an ‘‘arch.’”’ It will be observed that Beck 
says there were only remains of an arch. His sketch, “‘D, 3,” how- 
ever, shows a grave that is built up remarkably like a so-called “fur- 
