Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . nt this affordedfrom one terrace toanother is made useChilicothe and Ports-runs through it. Thetrees and bushes, andthem without suspect-first glance itwas constructed ,5 » • •» o • • See chapter on the Symbolism of Temples, in my•work on the Aboriginal Monuments of the State ofNew York. of practically by themouth turnpike whichwalls are covered withhundreds ride betweening their artificial origin. Atwould appear that this worksimply to facilitate ascent from one terrace toanother, but it can hardly be supposed that somuch labor w
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . nt this affordedfrom one terrace toanother is made useChilicothe and Ports-runs through it. Thetrees and bushes, andthem without suspect-first glance itwas constructed ,5 » • •» o • • See chapter on the Symbolism of Temples, in my•work on the Aboriginal Monuments of the State ofNew York. of practically by themouth turnpike whichwalls are covered withhundreds ride betweening their artificial origin. Atwould appear that this worksimply to facilitate ascent from one terrace toanother, but it can hardly be supposed that somuch labor would have been expended for anobject equally well effected with less effort. Ithas been suggested that the Scioto River onceflowed at the foot of the terrace at this point,and that the way led down to it. But the rivernow flows half a mile to the left, and two ter-races, each 20 feet high, intervene between thepresent and supposed ancient level of the assent to the suggestion would therefore be ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 167. 3. —?GRADKD W AY, NEAK PIKETON, OHIO. to admit an almost immeasurable antiquity forthe work in question. Having treated of Inclosures for Defenseand Sacred Inclosures, I now proceed to speakof the other classes of American Antiquities. III. SEPULCHRAL MOUNDS.[Scattered over the country at irregular intervals, ofvarious sizes from five to one hundred feet in height, inthe plain?, on eminences, in inclosures ; generally of earth,occasionally of stones; containing usually one skeleton,sometimes two, rarely more, buried in a rude chamber ofwood or stones, in shallow cists dug beneath the originallevel of the earth, or simply placed on the original surfaceof the ground, and covered with bark or matting; fre-quent evidences of fire in various parts of the mound nearits surface, and frequent secondaiy or recent burials byraces subsequent to the builders, who regarded the moundswith a certain degree of veneration.] The most end
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