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earthworks ; there is a square about one thousand feet on each side 

 surrounded with a line of earthworks or embankments several feet 

 high, and the whole area is filled in about ten feet. In the area are 



feet high. There are also several basins in the area, circular and 



fifty feet wide and twelve fret deep. The large mound mentioned 

 was cracked open by the earthquake, as was very obvious when I 

 visited it. 



" Col. J. H. Walker, who was a youth of sixteen years at the 

 time of the earthquake, showed me the mound in 1 *.")(>, and also 

 many large cracks produced by the earthquake. One of these 

 cracks ran through this large mound. Col. Walker told me : —This 

 crack was opened by the severe shock of Dec. 11,1811. It made 

 a wide gap through the mound from top to bottom. He [Walker] 

 went into it and saw at bottom about twenty feet of bones, some 

 human, some fish, and some of other animals. Above the hones 

 was a coat of plastering made of clay, cane and grass from five to 

 thirteen inches in thickness. Col. Walker was a leading man in 

 that country, well known all over the state, and was deemed very 

 reliable," 



