The magazine of American history with notes and queries . roven. One of the most extensiveof the ancient works in the West, was the fort, town or fortification on theMuskingum River in Ohio. Its site was on an elevated plain, above thepresent bank of that river, about half a mile from its junction with theOhio. As described by a writer in a MS. written about 1830, now held bya gentleman in Michigan, it consisted of walls and mounds of earth, indirect lines and in square and circular forms, and was about four hundredrods in circumference, so situated as to be nearly surrounded by two smallbrook
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . roven. One of the most extensiveof the ancient works in the West, was the fort, town or fortification on theMuskingum River in Ohio. Its site was on an elevated plain, above thepresent bank of that river, about half a mile from its junction with theOhio. As described by a writer in a MS. written about 1830, now held bya gentleman in Michigan, it consisted of walls and mounds of earth, indirect lines and in square and circular forms, and was about four hundredrods in circumference, so situated as to be nearly surrounded by two smallbrooks running into the Muskingum. The largest square fort, by manycalled the town, contained forty acres, encompassed by a wall of earth, 54^s ANTIQUITIES IN THE WESTERN STATES from six to eight feet high and from twenty to thirty feet in breadthat the base. On each side were three openings at equal distances, resem-bling twelve gateways. The entrances at the middle are the largest, par-ticularly on the side next the Muskingum. From this outlet is a covered. EXPLANATION. NO. I—WALLS OF THESE 2—THE CONICAL MOUNDS. NO. 2—ENCLOSED BY A CIRCLE, REPRESENTS A VERY>, I, SURROUNDED BY A WALL AND COVERED WAYS FROM LARGE FORT TO 4 A 2D OCTANGULAR SQUARE, 150 BY 120 FEET, AND 8 HIGH, WITH A SUBTERANEAN WAY LEADING TO ITSTOP. NO. 5—REMAINS OF AN ANCIENT WELL. NO. 6—TWO PONDS, OR EXCAVATIONS. NO. 7 —ELEVATED OCTANGULAR OBLONG SQUARE, 180FEET LONG, 30 BROAD, AND 9 HIGH \ LEVEL ON THETOP. NO. 8—A 3D ELEVATED SQUARE, 180 FEET BY 54 ; NOT AS HIGH AS THE OTHERS. ANTIQUITIES IN THE WESTERN STATES 549 way formed of two parallel walls of earth two hundred and thirty feet fromeach other; the walls at the highest point on the inside arc twenty-onefeet, and forty-two in width at the base, but on the outside average onlyabout five feet high. This forms a passage cf about twenty rods inlength, leading, by a gradual descent, to the low grounds, where at the ti
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