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quarter. The walls were about two fieet high ; the gateway opened toward the 

 west, and was twelve feet wide. It was situated on a beautiful eminence, nearly 

 surrounded by ravines." 



"About half a mile N. W. of this work," continues Mr. Clark, "on what is 

 called the Purdy lot, was another work, of larger dimensions, containing about four 

 and a half acres of ground. It is situated upon one of the most considerable ele- 

 vations of the town, and is nearly or quite square, with gateways opening to the 

 east and west. The embankment was originally about three feet high, and an oak 

 tree, two feet in diameter, was standing upon it. On the south side were numerous 

 holes, about two feet deep and six feet apart. Large quantities of broken pottery 

 and fresh water shells are still to be found. An oaken chest was discovered here, 

 somewhere about the year 18C0, which contained a quantity of silk goods. The 

 folds and colors were easily distinguishable, but the fabric crumbled on exposure. 

 Some copper coins, it is said, were found with the silks. 



" On lot 84, on the farm now owned by Mr. Caleb Brown, about forty rods 

 south of the road, was formerly a circular work, of upwards of three acres' area. 

 The embankment was about two feet high, the ditch exterior and four or five feet 

 t.eep. There was a wide gateway upon the west side, and a smaller one on the 

 northeast, opening toward a spring, some rods distant. In digging near the western 

 gateway, fragments of timber, bearing marks of edge tools, were found ; and in an 

 excavation called a well, fourteen feet deep, a quantity of charred Indian corn was 

 discovered. Upon the site of Mr. Brown's house and garden, was also an ancient 

 circular work, enclosing about an acre of ground. Within it were cinders, char- 

 coal, etc., as if it had been the site of a blacksmith's shop." 



Mr. Clark describes another ancient work, " situated on a hill, about a mile and 

 a half south of Delphi, in this township, on lot No. 100. It has an area of about 

 eight acres, and occupies an elevated piece of ground, surrounded by a ravine 

 made by two small streams which pass around it and unite on the north. It had 

 a large gateway upon the south, and a smaller one on the north. Before the first 



was a kind of mound. The defences con- 

 sisted of a ditch and pickets. At every 

 place where a picket stood, a shght de- 

 pression is still distinctly visible. In one 

 corner were evident marks of a black- 

 smith's shop, including various smith's 

 tools, a bed of cinders, and a deposit of 

 charcoal. Beneath one of these piles was 

 found, en cache, a quantity of charred Indian 

 corn, and squash and pumpkin seeds. A 

 Fie 46. short distance to the south of the work is 



an extensive cemetery, in which the bodies were buried in rows." Quantities of the 

 implements and trinkets introduced among the Indians, at the period of the first 

 European intercourse, are found with the skeletons. The palisades were set in the 

 bottom of the ditch, which, when first known, was six feet deep. About a mile 

 west from this are the remains of another work of similar character; and about a 



