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more distinctly designated by roads, counties or other landmarks inclines 

 me to the belief that they were among his early labors, and probably date 

 back at least to 1810. 



Walter Dun, my grandfather, was educated at the University of Grlasgow, 

 and struck, no doubt, by the peculiar conformation of these structures, 

 made these plans and took other notes on the ground, which afterward 

 were made into other and better plans in his office, and no doubt formed 

 the material for a communication to his old University at Grlasgow. 



Two of the plans, with a third supplementary plan, are perhaps now pre - 

 sented for the first time to a scientific society in this country. Their exact 

 location is not known, except that they are on the Little Miami River, 

 and are probably not far removed from the other plans, which are of works 

 near Milford, in Clermont Co., Ohio. The other plans are identified as 

 the same as Nos. 1 and 2 of Plat 34, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge, by Squier and Davis, 1847. The first plate is interesting in a 

 double sense. Although the rough drawings of a surveyor on the field it 

 corresponds pretty accurately in the measurements given by Davis in 1847. 



It is far more interesting from the fact that it notes and locates much 

 more of the surrounding works and details of the work itself than is to be 

 found in the survey of Davis. This may be accounted for in two ways. 

 Either these had disappeared from view under the plow in the time which 

 intervened between the surveys, or they escaped the observation of Davis. 

 I can vouch for the utmost correctness of these rude plans, and base it 

 entirely upon the character of the man and the fact that he was a most 

 accomplished and accurate surveyor. Glen. Lytle, of Cincinnati, made a 

 survey of this same work, which was published in Warden's Appendix to 

 Du Paix's Antiquities of Mexico.* 



The second plan, which appears in (Vol. I, Ibid) is taken from Warden's 

 Adpendix above mentioned, where it appears from a survey of Greu. Lytic. 

 Squier and Davis never saw it, and do not vouch for the details of the plan 

 which so nearly resembles the plan which I now exhibit and which is cer- 

 tainly older than that of Gen. Lytle. 



These plans are not only interesting from a historical point of view, but 

 also from the interest which these ancient monuments excited in the edu- 

 cated pioneers of Ohio, which in this case prompted these plans, and which 

 in one of these, at least, adds additional interest and value in the greater 

 details shown, which have probably been eradicated by the plow. Then, 

 too, they belong to the region near the cemetery and its adjoining mounds 



* Vol I, S. Cont. Knowledge. Page 95. 



