. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, om an oil painting, which was madebefore the works had been injured, is given in the accom-panying sketch. The view is from the north lookingsouth, the Muskingum River is on the right and the Ohioin the distance. The works occupy a high, sandy plainfrom eighty to one hundred feet above the bed of theriver, and from forty to sixty feet above the bottomlands of the Muskingum. The earth works consist of
. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, om an oil painting, which was madebefore the works had been injured, is given in the accom-panying sketch. The view is from the north lookingsouth, the Muskingum River is on the right and the Ohioin the distance. The works occupy a high, sandy plainfrom eighty to one hundred feet above the bed of theriver, and from forty to sixty feet above the bottomlands of the Muskingum. The earth works consist oftwo irregular squai^es (the one in the foreground havingan area of fifty acres and the other twenty-seven) inclos-ing various mounds and connected with a graded wayon the right and a large mound in the distance. On theopposite side of the Muskingum, situated upon bold,precipitous bluffs, are quite a number of stone mounds,which command a very extensive view. The walls ofthe enclosures, Avhen first discovered, were about six feethigh by about twenty-five feet base. The smaller squarecontains ten gateways, each of which is covered by smallmounds placed either on a line with the embankment or. MOUNDS. ■ 45 else immediately within the enclosure. The large moundin the distance and on the left is thirty feet high, sur-rounded by an embankment. It is now enclosed in thepublic cemetery and well guarded from encroachment. The larger work contains sixteen gateways, unaccom-panied by the protecting mounds. The gateway at thesouthern angle is covered by an interior crescent walland another may be said to be protected by the gradedway. Within this enclosure are four temple mounds,three of which have graded passages or avenues ofascent to their tops. The principal one is represented inthe right hand corner in the square in the is ten feet high, one hundred and eighty long andthirty-two wide. It has four graded ascents, midwayupon each side, each one being sixty feet long and
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