194 Thirty-fifth Report ox the State Museum. 



No trees are in the structure except a few young ones. There is no 

 living spring of water nearer than a mile at the south-west. 



The purpose for which this structure was made, and the race who 

 built it, are matters of conjecture. Had interments been made in the 

 ways, the fact would have been fully disclosed by the destruction of 

 all that portion in lot number 5. But none of the oldest inhabitants 

 of the region have ever seen any relics of bones there. The soil has 

 not depth enough anywhere in the seven acres (being seldom more 

 than eighteen inches deep) to allow of human interments. 



Its rectilineal divisions, some of which are over five hundred feet 

 long, are made with almost mathematical accuracy, and indicate a 

 skill we can hardly attribute to the red man. This work may belong 

 to the age B of the mound-builders and be one of the many curious 

 structures of that people. 



