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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



built chiefly of flat stones. This is shown by the clotted line 9, 9 in 

 the ground plan (PI. xxviii) and at 9, 9 in the sections (B and C). 

 It will be seen by reference to the figure (A) that an opening was left at 

 the east and west sides (h h), each about 10 feet wide. The earth has 











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Fig. 305.— Plat and section of the area about the Staats mound, Knox county, Ohio. 



washed and worn away from the upper i)art of the mound until it has 

 covered the wall to the depth of a foot or moi^e. There was nothing 

 found to show that the wall had ever been any higher than repre- 

 sented. Six feet within the wall, a little north of west from the center 



