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dimensions, although nearly all of them have recently been very carefully 

 surveyed. There are some with a striking approach to regularity; but 

 none that cannot be laid out with sight-stakes and a rope of sufficient 

 length to reach across them. 



Nevertheless, with this assumed mathematical ability as a starting 

 point, aided by the equally assumed perfection of mechanical skill neces- 

 sary for the fabrication of their various objects of utility or ornament, 

 and further reinforced by similar evidence from remains in other parts of 

 the country, there has been evolved in the minds of some authors a wide- 

 spread, highly civilized nation with a wonderfully developed government; 

 — monarchy, oligarchy, aristocracy, hierarchy, or whatever strikes the 

 writer's fancy. 



Many of these errors have been incidentally referred to in the course 

 of this paper. One other must be mentioned. 



In Plate IV, the smaller enclosure is represented as a perfect circle 

 800 feet in diameter. Figure 3 shows its actual shape — an elliptical 



Plate IV. Archaeology. Geology of Ohio. Vol. VII 



ScaLc Feet 



Low Bottoms,. 



I,ibert\' Township Works. 



