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E. G. Squier on the Ancient Monuments of Kentucky. 



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Fayette County. — 1. An irregular enclosure or fortification oc- 

 cupying a peninsula formed by the Elkhorn river, at its junction 

 with the Town fork, seven miles from Lexington. The river 

 passed through one portion of the enclosure, — a feature unknown 

 in any other work with which we are acquainted. Near this work 

 are several small enclosures and a number of large mounds. 



A plan from a survey found among the Rafinesque papers, pur- 

 porting to have been made in the year 1790, is engraved in A. M. 

 of M. V., Plate ix, No. 3. Another plan, corresponding with 

 this in every essential particular, is published in Collins' History 

 of Kentucky. It is possible that in the subdivisions which have 

 been made, this work now falls in Woodford county. 



2. An irregular enclosure of eighteen acres area, on the South 



The Cally 



Elkhorn river 



six miles distant from Lexington. 



Ford road passes through it. The walls are low ; ditch exterior. 

 A plan, from what appears to be a minute survey by Rafinesque, 

 is published in A. M. of M. V., Plate xiv, No. 4. 



3. Another irregular work, of similar character but larger size, 

 is situated not far from that last described, on the South Elkhorn 

 river. It has an area of twenty-five acres. A plan, from a sur- 

 vey by Rafinesque, is published in A. M. of M. V., Plate xiv, 

 No. 3. 



5. Rafinesque mentions a polygon, of seven unequal sides, and 

 4800 feet in circumference, in the vicinity of Lexington, but does 

 not indicate its exact locality. According to this authority the 

 embankment, at the time of his writing, was from eight to six- 

 teen feet in height. 



6. Rafinesque also notices an enclosure near the mouth of the 

 Elkhorn river, six hundred feet in circumference ; parapet two 

 feet high ; ditch interior to the embankment. Within this enclos- 

 ure is a " platform," seventy feet square ; also a mound four feet 

 high and one hundred and seventy-five in circumference. Vari- 

 ous other works, " causeways, platforms, and mounds,' 7 are men- 

 tioned as occurring in this vicinity. 



Woodford County. — 1. At Cynthiana, on the south bank of 

 Licking river, a small circular work, 570 feet in circumference. 

 A similar work is found on the lands of Mr. H. Miller, on the 



Licking river. — (R.) 



2. On the farm of Mr. W. Anderson, also on the banks of 

 Licking river, is a group of six mounds ; two of which have em- 

 bankments around their bases. The circumference of the largest 

 is six hundred feet, height thirty feet. — (R.) 



3. An octagon terrace or " platform 77 occurs near Lovedale. 

 {Figured and described, A. M. of M. F., p. 176.) 



Jessamine County. — 1. A large mound one mile southeast of 

 Nicholasville. It is elliptical. Several graves lined with stones 



have been found in mounds, iti this vicinity. 



(R.) 



