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A better understanding of the work may be had from the map 
(fig. 18) than from verbal description; the solid black lines represent 
embankments, the shaded lines ditches. The work is plainly defen- 
sive in nature. Except at the ends, approach is possible only by 
climbing the slopes; the latter, however, are not so steep as to 
present peculiar difficulty. The most accessible and vulnerable 
part is at the northern extremity; here the overlapping ends of the 
wall compel a detour in entering. At the opposite end, where there 
is a considerable level 
area outside the 
walls, protection is in- 
sured, or augmented, 
by a complicated ar- 
rangement of minor 
embankments and 
trenches. But the 
sides of these could 
not be made so steep, AL IN 
nor of sufficient height Soe eK OWS 
or depth, with the 
amount of earth avail- 
able, as to balk a de- 
termined enemy. 
Residents in the 
vicinity who were fa- 
miliar with the work 
before it was dis- 
turbed, state there 
was an interior ditch 
all around except at 
the entrances.  Pro- 
fessor Broadhead, 
OF tt 
OLD FORT ar rng PINNACLES 
SALINE COUNTY MQ. 
who also saw it in | S42 pee op en 
primitive forest, gives 
the following descrip- 
5 Fic. 18. The ‘‘ Old Fort” in Saline county. 
Lion: ® 
In Saline county, Missouri, four miles southwest of Miami, I visited, in 1872, an 
interesting locality showing ancient earthworks, walls, and ditches on high ground 
ina dense wood. The outline was somewhat of a circular shape, though quite irregu- 
lar, caused by ravines breaking off near the outer rim, the walls being re-entrant in 
such places. The inclosed space is about 40 acres, around which there partly extended 
three ridges and two valleys, or rather depressions, where at one time existed deep 
ditches. We have first a ridge 8 feet wide and 3 feet high, then a ditch 6 feet wide 
and 3 feet deep, then a ridge 8 feet wide and 3 feet high, then a ditch 10 feet wide 
«Smithsonian Report for 1879, 356, Washington, 1880. 
