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cular sides. The exterior has not 
vet been penetrated. 
£8. Some Antiquities of Ohio. 
Notwithstanding the long account 
of the monuments and ancient towns 
of Ohio bj Atwater, in the Archeo- 
logia Americana, and my own sy- 
noptical account of the ancient mo- 
numents of North America; there 
are many more as yet unnoticed, of 
which I shall now describe two. 
1. Near Alexandersville, 7 miles 
S. of Dayton in the Valley of the 
Great Miami river, the main road 
from Cincinnati to Dayton, which I 
travelled in 1826, crosses the site 
of an ancient town, of about 500 
acres extent. It forms a perfect 
ellipsis, nearly one mile long, from 
N. to S. It is surrounded by a wall 
or embankment £5 feet broad and 8 
feet high, without any ditch outside 
nor inside. It has 3 gateways to the 
East, West and North, this last is 
close to the River Miami, which has 
partly washed away the embank- 
ment. By its size and shape it could 
not have been a temple; but rather 
a town. I could see no mounds nor 
altars near it. It is very old, the 
walls being rounded, covered with 
soil and large trees. 
£. At the mouth of Grand River 
on Lake Erie, where now stands the 
town of Rairport, stood about 50 
years ago, an old Indian fort, ex- 
actly of a pentagone shape, with une- 
qual sides, inclosing several acres. 
The wall was of rough stones, partly 
cemented,but covered with soil, and 
trees 300 old were growing on it. 
This account was given me by an 
old settler and is rather obscure. 
The stone wall, with a kind of ce- 
ment is rather singular and doubtful. 
This may have been one of the forts 
of the Erigas or Erie’s Nation, 
built for defence against the Sene- 
cas, who drove them off South of 
Ohio in 1650; but it was far more 
ancient; the trees showing that it 
had been left, soil formed and trees 
begun to grow towards 1475. 
C. S. R. 
£9. ECONOMY OR SCIENCE OF WEALTH 
The Divitial art is a new branch 
of this science, which teaches how 
to produce and increase wealth, by 
carefully husbanding and employing 
the Savings of Industry: whereby 
industry itself, with moral happi- 
ness, and social comforts are also 
promoted. 
Among the many institutions to 
which this art has given rise, the. 
Beneficial Societies and the Savings’ 
Banks are the most conspicuous and 
useful; but some others less known 
are not less so, and there is room for 
several new ones on improved 
plans. 
Having paid peculiar attention to 
this subject, written an analysis of 
this art, and found some new impor- 
tant principles of it: we propose to 
invite the public attention to it very 
speedily in a more impressive form; 
when we have visited the new insti- 
tutions lately established in Balti- 
more; where these principles were 
first made known by us in 1825. 
Meantime we merely state now, 
that the two fundamental principles 
which we claim to have discovered 
and published in 1825, are, 
1. That every dollar and cent 
saved by industry, frugality and 
care, ought to be invested with the 
property of accumulating at simple 
or compound interest, by conversion 
into Stocks ! 
2. That every public or private 
Stock consisting of such Savings, 
ought to be divisible at pleasure into 
any required amount of dollars and 
cents. Whereby any Savings be- 
come convertible into productive 
Stocks, and any such Stocks conver- 
tible into fractions available as mo- 
ney or remittances. 
It is evident that such ample and 
useful principles cannot fail to in- 
terest every body that can save a 
penny out of industrious earnings: 
nor fail to be applied every where, 
when more generally understood, as 
they have already partly been ap- 
plied in Baltimore and Boston. 
r C. S. R. 
