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an enlargement of the rami) or way at tUis point, with a tlat or level 

 top. This ramp seems to have extended to No. 5, and, as before stated, 

 to No. 0, forming- here a grand platform. The hnt rings which are so 

 scattered around and over this immediate area are probably the 

 remains of a subsequent occupancy to tliat by the builders of the 

 mounds. Mound (i presents more the appearance of an elongated plat- 



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Flii. 1)4,— Plan of M011111I3 Noa. ;i. 4. .'J. auci fi. Rich Woods inoumls. 



form than a true mound. A plan of these four mounds and the graded 

 way, prepared from a careful survey, is given in Fig. 94, and a section 

 of .S, 4, and 5 in Fig. 95. 



As the surface of the area occupied is comparatively level it was 

 thought best to make the survey of the group dependent upon one 

 base and one auxiliary line. These in the reduction of the plat have 

 been omitted. The base runs north and south, east of the group along 

 the margin of the swamp, and makes three bends, on account of the 

 changes in the direction of the margin of the upland and the obstruc- 

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