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760 ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Of the seventy breaks in the parapet not more than twenty were 
used as gateways. 
4. The gateways are distinguished by having their floors ele- 
vated above the natural surface of the ground both outside and 
inside of the parapet ; they were also probably all faced and paved 
' with stone, as remains of these stone facings are often seen, and 
the facing and paving of one of the gateways are still almost 
perfectly preserved. : 
- At one point there are plain traces of a stone pathway 
(probably originally stone steps) leading for a long distance from 
a gateway down the crest of the ridge towards the brook that 
empties ‘into the little Miami. 
6. The ravines of the western side of the northern half of - 
fortification had been so filled with brush that it was impossible 
or me to examine them as thoroughly as was desirable, or to visit 
the well near by. 
7T. The entire interior of the northern half of the fort is now 
under cultivation, and the plough has revealed two large piles of 
stones at one spot. 
8. There are but two instances of recent gullies cut through 
the embankments, and the ravines are now in very nearly the same 
condition as when the work was built. Only in four places are 
the original ravines perceptibly deeper than when the work was 
deserted. : 
9. Many holes have been dug by treasure-seekers, especially by 
a person from Lebanon, who is continually resorting hither with 4 
hazel rod in his hand. aa 
10. Two mounds are to be found in the woods on the south and 
east of the fortification as reported to me by the farmer living x 
the neighboring house on the Chillicothe road, but I had no 
time to hunt for them. : 
11. An oak tree on the northern face of the embankment Men 
recently cut down having five hundred rings counted by Hon. Æ. 
D. Mansfield, in 1855. | 
12. No stone implements were found nor any traces of pe 
13. The general impression that one must receive from a 
study of this remarkable earthwork is that it was once the defence 
of a walled town,—that it was not a hasty construction, a goe : 
abandoned, but was occupied for a long period. The conis 
is so well guarded at both its ends, as well as its sides, that it woul? 
