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mile north of Delphi, on a farm owned by a Mr. Sheldon, is still another. Around 

 a number of these works, the corn hills of the Indians could be traced for a long 

 period after the occupation of the country by the whites. Medals, crosses, gun- 

 barrels, knives, axes — in short, every variety of article introduced by the Eui-o- 

 peans after the discovery, are to be found here in abundance. 



Perhaps the most interesting work of which any traces yet remain in Pompey 

 township, is the one of which Mr. Clark gives the accompanying plan, and which 

 occurs on lot No. 3, on land owned by Mr. Isaac Keeler. 



Mr. Clark describes this work as follows: .••:.■-■•'•"•'.".'.•,•••. 



" It had been enclosed with palisades of cedar, ,-;•*' "'•".".•-_ 



and contained some ten acres of ground. The 

 plan was a parallelogram, divided by two rows 

 of palisades, running east and west, and cross- 

 ing in the centre. The space between the 

 rows was about twelve feet. At the N. W. 

 corner was an isolated bastion and an embra- 

 sure. At the period of the first cultivation of 

 the land, many stumps of the palisades, which 

 had been burned off even with the ground, were 

 ploughed up. Within the southern division of 

 the fort were several mounds, the principal one 

 of which was four feet high, rising on a base 

 of about fifteen feet in diameter, composed V;.. ..•'.•' 



chiefly of ashes, in which were found many "'•■.•.•.• - — ;.'.'■•''' 



beads of the size of bullets, and a great variety fi'I^t 



of trinkets made of red pipe-stone. Several B, parapet — A, mounds— C, look-out- 

 hundred pounds of old iron, consisting of axes, D, palisades. 

 gun-barrels, files, knives, etc., etc., were also found in the same place. The smaller 

 mounds contained charred corn, many bushels of which were ploughed up. At 

 a distance of about thirty rods north of the work was a ditch, nearly forty rods 

 long, and varying from three to six feet in depth. It seems to have been entirely 

 disconnected from the work in question. The situation of this ancient fort is on 

 an elevation of land rising gradually for about a mile in every direction ; and, at 

 the time of its occupancy, several hundred acres of land must have been cleared 

 around it. Fragments of pottery, pipes, flint arrow-heads, stone hatchets, etc., 

 etc., are abundantly found on this spot. In many places, both within and exterior 

 to the work, were found pits for hiding corn and other articles, en cache." Some 

 small mounds containing human bones are found on the lands of Mr. S. A. Keene, 

 in this vicinity. 



A relic of some interest, and which has given rise to no inconsiderable specula- 

 tion, is a stone bearing an inscription, found in this township in 1820, by Mr. 

 Philo Cleveland. It is about fourteen inches long, by twelve broad, and eight 

 thick, granitic, and bearing upon one side a rude representation of a tree, entwined 

 by an equally rude representation of a serpent, with some letters and a date, as 

 shown in the cut. 



