THOMAS.] LAKEVILLE "SETTLEMENT." 173 



THE LAKEVILLE SETTLEMENT. 



This settlement or grouiJ of works, which is shown in Fig. 90, is 

 located 2 miles southwest of the village of Lakeville, ou a narrow but 

 rather high east-and-west ridge, between two cypress swamps. It 

 consists of an inclosing wall, and includes mounds and hut rings. The 

 inclosure is oblong, but when complete was probably rectangular; it 

 extends, however, at each end into fields which have been cultivated so 

 long that the traces of it are lost here. The central portion (that shown 

 in the figure), extending east and west about 360 yards, is still covered 

 by heavy timber and a thick growth of underbrush and briers. Here 

 the walls and other works are uninjured. 



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Fia. 90 The Lakeville settlement, Stoddard county, Misaonri. 



A wall extends along each flank of the ridge facing the swamp that 

 borders the latter on either side. They are 200 paces apart and run 

 nearly parallel to each other in an east-and-west direetion. Slight 

 enlargements at irregular intervals are seen, and there are a few short 

 breaks, but these may have been made by rainwater which had accu- 

 mulated on the inside. Whether these two lines were once connected 

 by cross-end walls, can not now be determined, but it seems quite 

 probable that such was the case. These walls, measured on the out- 

 side, average about 3 feet in height, varying but little in this respect; 

 but the inside has been so filled up by the garbage and debris of the 

 village or otherwise that this portion is now within 1 foot of the top 

 of the wall. 



