E. G. Squie? % on the Ancient Monuments of Kentucky. 



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Fig. 1. 



2. A large collection of Indian graves, four miles from Buck's 

 Tavern, and also on a bluff, to the right of the road, near Grimes' 



Mills.— (R.) 



Clay County. — 1. A square stone work, about ten miles north- 

 east of Manchester, on the road to "Red Bird river" salt works. 

 Sides each measure about one hundred feet in length. — (R.) 



2. At the salt works on Goose creek, in this county, are abun- 

 dant evidences that the salines were once worked by the Indians. 



broken pottery, pestles, etc., being found here ill abundance. 



Larue County. — An interesting work occurs in this county. 

 " It is situated upon a level bottom of twenty 

 or more acres, near its extreme point, where 

 the creek makes a sudden bend. The creek 

 is here about fifteen yards wide, with abrupt 

 banks, six feet high. The walls have fallen 

 or may have been thrown down, and are 

 now about three feet high, covering a space 

 twenty feet wide. They may originally have 

 been seven feet wide by six feet high. The 

 distance from gateway to gateway is a little 

 upwards of one hundred feet, and the area en- 

 closed is not far from twenty square rods. The ground is some- 

 what lower within than exterior to the walls. These walls seem 

 to have been faced inside and out with dry masonry, filled in with 

 smaller stones. There are still two pieces of the inside wall stand- 

 ing, one at the southwest angle of the work, the other at the north 

 side of the eastern gateway. The stones have evidently been frac- 

 tured by percussion, and now lie edges up, — clearly the fallen faces 

 of the original walls. It may be well to remark that the bottom land 

 here presents no stones of any sort, and is an alluvial black loam. 

 In respect to its antiquity, it can only be said that it is covered 

 with a primitive forest, and that a pine tree nearly seven feet in cir- 

 cumference is growing on the wall." — Collinses Kentucky, p. 398. 



Trigs? County. — 1. At Canton near Boyd's landing on the 

 Cumberland river, an enclosure nearly square, 7500 feet or about 

 a mile and a half in circumference. The wall is from three to 

 five feet high; ditch exterior. It encloses nine mounds of large 

 size. One is rectangular, truncated, twenty-two feet high, one 

 hundred and fifty long and ninety broad. — (R.) 



2. There are many mounds of various shapes and sizes in this 

 county. 



rocky bank of the Cumberland river, are three mounds, each 



about ten feet high. An oblong square " teocalli," or truncated 



mound, also occurs upon the bank of the Cumberland, not far 



from the above named mounds. There are two conical tumuli, 



one at each end of this structure. Several broad flat mounds or 



"platforms," are found near the junction of Little river with the 



Two miles south of Canton, on the top of a high 



