Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 10.—ANCIENT WORKS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MlSSISSirPI or built of successive stages. But whatevertheir form—round, oval, octangular, or square—they have invariably level tops of greater or lessarea. Some are only a few feet in elevation, al-though covering large spaces of ground ; such arepopularly known as platforms. Mounds ofthis class are not numerous in the Valley of theOhio and on the upper tributaries of the Missis-sippi, but are numerous in the Southern States,whence we shall draw our present 10 is a plan o
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 10.—ANCIENT WORKS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MlSSISSirPI or built of successive stages. But whatevertheir form—round, oval, octangular, or square—they have invariably level tops of greater or lessarea. Some are only a few feet in elevation, al-though covering large spaces of ground ; such arepopularly known as platforms. Mounds ofthis class are not numerous in the Valley of theOhio and on the upper tributaries of the Missis-sippi, but are numerous in the Southern States,whence we shall draw our present 10 is a plan of a group of these moundsnever before published. It is found in Washing-ton County, Mississippi, on the road from theMississippi River, opposite Point Chicot to Will-iams Bayou. It will be observed that the groupis made up of a series of rectangular mounds, ofvarious sizes, all truncated, and nearly all as-. 11.—ANCIENT WOEKS, LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MIsaiSSIlTI. cended by inclined are connected witheach other by raised cause-ways. The principal mound, A, is 420 by 390 feet squareat its base, 55 feet high, andhas a level area at its sum-mit 120 feet long by 100feet broad. A graded road-way, 30 feet wide, leads toits top from the east. At itsbase to the northeastward isa platformor raised area, B, 10 feet high and 75 feetwide, with a small mound, C, on the right, 120 by 90feet at the base, with which^it is connected by a terrace4 feet high and 25 feet the top of the greatmound. A, is an excavation30 feet long, 25 broad, and 6deep. A number of smallerrectangular mounds, withgraded ascents, form, in con-junction with that just de-scribed, and are of nearlyequal size to the left, a rect-angular inclosure, withinwhich are a few conicalmounds. All the moundsof this group are well-pre-served, and display a won-derful regularity of outline. It is representedthat numbers of coni
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