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there are no traces of a trench; thediameter of the circular fort, taken 
between the exterior ramparts,is one hundred and ninety-six rods; 
both of them are twenty feet high, taken from the base of the 
ditch; the inner one is filled up, and the exterior is dug from the 
ground; the fortress consists of clay, the latter of sand and flint- 
stone; the rampart of the square fort is ten feet higher, and of 
clay; the length of one side of the square is fifty-four rods; the 
town, containing six hundred inhabitants, is for the greatest part 
built inside of the round and square fort, of which it occupies the 
fourth part of the surface. In its centre is a round space, in the 
midst of which stands a court-house of brick in the shape of an 
octagon. Circleville is the chief town of Pickaway county. From 
this circular place four principal streets run towards the north, 
south, east, and west; in order to open them, the double round 
wall has unfortunately been partly demolished; the selfishness of 
the inhabitants goes so far that they take the clay of the inner 
wall and the square fort to burn bricks of it; this little' town 
was founded in 1812, at the same time with Columbus, but has 
not increased much since; the houses are generally of wood. The 
prison alone is of solid construction, built of free-stone. 
On the outside of the circular fort, on the hill opposite the quad¬ 
rangular fort, is another hill ninety feet high, that commands all 
the neighbouring parts, which appear to have been a burying- 
ground—a great number of human skeletons of all sizes having 
been found there; they were all in a horizontal position, the heads 
being turned towards the centre of the hill. With the skeletons 
were several stone axes, and oval, polished black stones, having a 
hole in their centre, probably to fix them on a string, to be worn 
as ornaments or talismans. 
In the centre of the circular fort, where the court-house now 
stands, there was formerly another hill, on the eastern side of 
which are the remains of a semicircular pavement, made of peb¬ 
ble-stones, the same which are found in the bed of the Sciota; the 
top of the hill is of thirty feet diameter, and has a flight of steps 
leading to it; two human skeletons were found there. At the 
natural level of the ground a great number of stone arrow-heads, 
which were so strong that they must have belonged to lances. A 
great quantity of wood ashes and hard burnt bricks induce the belief 
that the bodies were burnt; there was a looking-glass made of mica 
membranacea. More minute details of these antiquities, as well 
as all the others which have been found in this state, are described 
in Mr. Caleb Atwater’s Archaelogia Americana. I paid a visit 
to this gentleman, who resides here; he is a great antiquarian, 
and exists more in the antiquities of Ohio, than in the present 
world. I spent the evening with this interesting man, and was 
very agreeably entertained; he possesses a collection of objects 
