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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Fig. 315. This is omitted by Squier aud Davis, but is iiidlcated in the 

 tigure of this group in McLean's Mound Builders, page 33, though the 

 form he gives is erroneous. As will be seen by I'efereuce to the figure 

 now given, it is an inclosure in the form of a figure 8, with an inside 

 ditch, an opening at the east, and a wall or embankment in the form 

 of an arc in the interior, near the middle. The entire length of the 

 wall, following the curves from the end on one side of the gateway' to 

 the end on the other side, is 529 feet; width of gateway, 53 feet; the 

 north and south diameters of the circles, measuring from the top of 

 the wall, 125 feet; the length of the crescent, 107 feet; the wall and 

 ditch are each about 9 feet wide, the one about a foot high and the other 

 a foot deep, but quite distinct throughout. 



The three mounds in a row west of the "pond" or swamp in Squier 

 and Davis's iilan are in a northwest and southeast line, and not noi'th- 

 east aud southwest, as represented; the fourth is not to be found. Two 



are in the woods on a level, 

 10 feet above the swamp ; 

 the third is in a cultivated 

 field. The north and south 

 two are each about 33 by 

 G3 feet, with the longer axis 

 nearly north aud south; 

 the third, circular, 32 feet 

 in diameter, is about mid- 

 way between them. All 

 are about 3 feet high. 



The ditch witliin the fair- 

 ground circle (E) is 5 or 6 

 feet lower at the entrance 

 than at other part, and the 

 dirt in it just such as may 

 be found in any old ditch, being of a grayish clay color when dry, but 

 resembling the loam around when wet. There is no evidence of the 

 puddling which some late investigators have professed to find. 



The earth for the embankments was taken in part from the ditch and 

 in part from outside excavations plainly visible. The largest of these 

 is marked by Squier and Davis, but there are many other places where 

 dirt seems to have been taken up from the suiface to the depth of 

 from 1 to 2 or 3 feet. The same is true of the various works in the 

 vicinity. 



Thex'e are four distinct terraces in the bottom-lands on which these 

 remains are situated; only the lowest one has ever been overflowed 

 since occupation by the whites. 



In order that parties desirous of doing so may have an opportunity 

 of testing the previous surveys of the works at this place, the field 

 notes of the survey of the " Fair ground circle," the " Observatory cir- 



Fig. 315. — Small inclosure, Ncwaik 

 Oliio. 



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