12 jE7. G. Squier on the Ancient Monuments of Kentucky. 



" 3. The square enclosures might have been the palaces of their kings 

 or chiefs, who were called children of the sun, as in Peru, and among 



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the Floridans, Natchez, &c. ; or perhaps the council houses, places of 

 meeting for public purposes. 



"4. All the mounds are evidently barrows or sepulchral monuments, 

 and natural appendages to temples, as our church-yards are to our 

 places of worship : but No. 12 and 13, by their peculiar enclosures and 

 avenues, must have been the tombs of great kings, heroes, priests or 

 queens, who may have been worshiped after death. Similar apothe- 

 oses were common among many ancient nations. 



u 5. The use of Nos. 4 and 6, is more problematical ; but must have 

 been analogous, owing to the connection with mounds. Else No. 4 

 may have been used for civil purposes, and No. 6 for military ones, as 

 likewise No. 9." 



Bourbon County. — 1. At the junction of Flat Run and S toner's 

 creek, an irregular enclosure, containing an area of twenty-one 

 acres. A number of mounds and excavations occur within the 

 wails, together with other remains, consisting of raised outlines, 

 two or three feet broad and one foot high. The latter are called 

 f remains of dwellings" by Rafinesque. Twenty of these are 

 found within, and fourteen without, the walls. A Plan is pub- 

 lished in A. M. of M. V., Plate xm, No. 1. 



enclosure near " Ruddle's Station/' on Licking 

 creek, 7450 feet in circumference. Several considerable circular 

 and semi-circular works also occur in this vicinity. One of these 

 is situated three miles from Paris, on the Millersburg road. 



3. On the road from Paris to Mt. Sterling, near Gen. Fletchers' 

 an enclosure of large size. 



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2. A large 



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(R.) 



Fig. 2 is a plan of an an- 

 cient work, also situated on 



Stoner's creek, one and a 

 fourth mile below the town 

 of Paris, Bourbon county. At 

 this point the creek makes a 

 large bend ; across the isthmus 

 of the peninsula thus formed 

 is carried a ditch and wall, 



Fig. 



cutting 



off 



ap- 

 The 



completely 



proach in that direction, 

 area enclosed by the creek 

 and wall is about fifty acres. 

 The letters a and c indicate 

 mounds; the latter occupies 

 the summit of a commanding 

 cliff. « It is said that a cause- 

 way was perceptible at the 

 period of the settlement of 



