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its mode of L-oustructioii coultl not be determined. Still west, its edge 

 extending quite up to the ditch, is another mound (c) 1 foot high and 

 2-1 feet in diameter. This has never been disturbed. From the top of 

 the banlv at the northeast corner of 2 to the nearest point on tup of the 

 embankment of inclosure 1, is 133 feet; and the liue of the north edge 

 of 2, if produced, would touch the south edge of 1. 



Southwest of 2 is another circular inclosure (3) similar in construction 

 to 1; the embankment is 18 feet across and 2 feet high; the ditch 22 

 feet wide and 3 feet deep in the deepest pai't; the level space inclosed 

 100 feet in diameter, making the entire diameter of the inclosure from 

 center to center of the outer wall 162 feet. The passageway (opening 

 directly toward 2) is 22 feet wide. In the inclosure is a mound (d) 40 

 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, its center being 60 feet from the inner 

 edge of the ditfh on the east. The amount of earth in this mound is 

 hardly sufBcieiit to account for the difference between tlie cubic con- 

 tents of the excavation and those of the embankment. 



About 500 feet west of 3 is a single mound (4) 5 feet high and 50 feet 

 in diameter. 



BROWN COUNTY. 



MOUND GliOUP ON HILL PLACE. 



The group shown in Fig. 311 is on a high hill near the Aruheiin pike, 

 4 miles north of Eipley, on the farm of Mr. James M. Hill, and consists 

 of eight mounds, two of which are surnninded by a ditch and embank- 

 ment. 



The principal mound (1) is 72 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. Three 

 small tumuli (2, 3, and 4), which have been plowed over for many years, 

 are now from li to 2.J feet high and from 30 to 40 feet in diameter. 



No. 5 is 2i feet high and 40 feet in diameter. This is surrounded by 

 a circular wall and inner ditch each about 15 feet across, the diameter 

 of the former from the middle line on one side to the middle on the 

 other side being 151 feet, and of the ditch from center to center 11& 

 feet. The wall is now only about 1 foot high, and the ditch scarcely 

 more than 1 foot in deptli. 



No. 6 is a similar work, except that it is elliptical instead of circular, 

 the measurements being as follows : The mound 80 feet east and west 

 and 70 north and south; the ditch measuring from center to center 150 

 feet east and west and 120 feet north and south; the wall from top to 

 top 180 by 150 feet. The mound is 5 feet high, the ditch and wall each 

 about 15 to 18 feet wide, the height of the wall from 1 to 2 feet, and the 

 ditch but little over a foot deep. 



Westward from the latter work, one at the distance of 365 feet and 

 the other nearly 1,200 feet, are two other mounds (7 and 8). The for- 

 mer of these is 3 feet high and 50 feet in diameter; the latter (8) 3J feet 

 high and 75 feet in diameter, is on a lower level than the other and not 

 visible from any other mound in the whole group, yet from its position 



