244 On the Mounds of the West. 
town of Chillicothe. There are no enclosures nearer than a mile, 
though there are three or four other mounds, of smaller size, on 
the same terrace, within a few hundred yards. The mound is 
twenty-two feet high, by ninety feet base. The principal exca- 
vation was made, (as represented by the dotted lines in the sec- 
tion,) from the west side, commencing at about one-third of the 
height of the mound from the top. At ten feet below the sur- 
face, occurred a layer of charcoal, (a,) not far from ten feet square, 
and from two to six inches in thickness, slightly inclined from 
the horizontal, and lying mostly to the left of the centre of the 
mound. The coal was coarse and clear, and seemed to have been 
formed by the sudden covering up of the wood, while burning, 
inasmuch as the trunks and branches retained their form, though 
plete the list of articles found with this skeleton. The foot of the 
skeleton was nearly in the centre of the mound. A drift beyond 
it developed nothing new, nor was a corresponding layer of char- 
coal found, on the opposite side of the mound. _ It is clear there- 
fore, that the tumulus was raised over this single skeleton. In 
ne case of a mound of this class, opened at Gallipolis, on the 
Ohio river, the chamber enclosing the skeleton was found just 
below the original surface,—a fact which can always be detected 
