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juts out from the hills bordering the valley of Salt creek. The larger 

 work, wliich includes the mound, stands on the brink of the blutt', 

 which rises here to a height of 200 feet above the valley. Fig. 308 is a 

 plat of the works and the ground in the immediate vicinity. A plan 

 of the larger work, which, as before stated, consists of an earthern in- 



FiQ. 308.— Works on the Davis place, Hocking county, Ohio. 



closure, inner ditch, and included mound, is shown in Fig. 309. It will 

 be seen from this that the form of both the inclosure and the mound (a) 

 is somewhat quadrilateral or oblong, the longer diameter being east 

 and west. The mound, which covers the entire area, save a narrow 

 strip here and there, is 115 feet long and 96 wide at base, with a height 



