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of a string, tightly tastened round, which latter the notches on one 

 side prevented from slipping. The pipe is not ornamented. The 

 needle is formed from the tooth of some rodent; the root is perforated 

 to serve as the eye, and the crown brought to a rough point. The 

 original curvature of the tooth seems to be nearly unaltered. 



THE LINES OP EARTHWORKS 



exist in two groups: farthest to the north runs almost across the en- 

 tire hill, (east to west) an irregular angular ridge., meAsuring now 

 about ten (10) feet across, two and one-half (2^) feet in height and 

 1,150 feet in length; it is provided with three sharp angular projec- 

 tions, by the inhabitants of Osboni not unreasonably termed "bas- 

 tions." They are situated one each near the extremities, and the 

 third about iu the middle.* The top of the hill having been used 

 for fifty years as a pasture, the ridge has in many places been trodden 

 down and somewhat lost its distinctness, especially the extremities and 

 the sharp angles of the "bastions." 



Immediately behind the ridge (to the south of it) and closely fol- 

 lowing its course, is a ditch, averaging about one and a half feet in 

 depth, and width nearly the same as that of the ridge. Whether this 

 ditch was merely the result of the excavation, whence the material for 

 the ridge was obtained, or in itself intended as a part of the earthwork 

 (fortification) is rather conjectural, yet its regular occurrence along 

 the same side of the ridge, and its entire absence from the second line 

 of earthworks, seem to argue rather in favor of the latter theory. 



The eastern part of this line of works (e) is lost in the slope of 

 the hilLf 



About five hundred feet to the south of earthwork (e), just de- 

 scribed, is found another more regular line of ridges, (f) showing no 

 distinct ditches accompanying it, and consists of two rectangular en- 

 closures. The larger of them is a field containing a little over 7^ 

 acres. The ridge, whose dimensions are similar to those of the first 

 mentioned, is not everywhere so distinctly traceable as the former, 

 having still more suffered from the destructive causes above mention- 

 *See table of measurements appended. 



tin various places, at irregular distances, the ditch is strewn with stones of various 

 sizes, and as they occur mostly at or near the projections, there are many who believe 

 that these stones had been deposited there by the aborigines for purposes of defense, and 

 to conjecture even that apparatus for throvVing them "mechanically at the enemy had 

 been in vogue ; but as the surface layer of soil is a mere scum it may, with a greater de- 

 gree of probability, be surmised that these stones were simply, like the earth, thrown up 

 for a like purpose as itself. 



