Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . EARTHWORKS AT HOPETON, OHIO. fenses. The mound on the plain of Ca-hokia is seven hundred feet long and fivehundred feet in breadth. Tts heio-ht is 350 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ninety feet, the superficial area abouteight acres, and the contents nearlytwenty millions of cubic feet. Themound on Grave creek, in West Virginia,has an elevation of seventy feet, and theone at Miamisburg, Ohio, is nearly asgreat in elevati
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . EARTHWORKS AT HOPETON, OHIO. fenses. The mound on the plain of Ca-hokia is seven hundred feet long and fivehundred feet in breadth. Tts heio-ht is 350 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ninety feet, the superficial area abouteight acres, and the contents nearlytwenty millions of cubic feet. Themound on Grave creek, in West Virginia,has an elevation of seventy feet, and theone at Miamisburg, Ohio, is nearly asgreat in elevation and extent. We come now to consider some of thestrangest monuments which the humanEarthworks in race has left in its track,the form of jt h been discovered that beasts and ser-pents, many of the embank-ments and outer works under considera-tion have the form of men or (JREAT SERPENT MOUND, IN ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO. It is not uncommon in the States of Wis-consin and Iowa to come upon one ofthese ancient works which, consideredin its entirety, presents a huge effigy ofman or beast. There is no mistakingthe design. It was manifestly intendedto represent a living creature, laid proneor in profile on the earth. The effect isthat of a huge bas-relief, developed from the ground. Still more astonishing isthe great serpentine mound on the banksof Brush creek, in Ohio. The serpentine The mole of earth repre- mound of Brush ,, , . j. creek, Ohio. sentmg the serpent is, iromhead to tail, over a thousand feet inlength. The figure is five or six feet inheight and nearly thirty feet in widthat* the base, diminishing gradually to-ward the tail. At the sides of the neckare two flat, or ear-like, projections,and the mouth stands wide open. Rightin front of the mouth, and placed as ifissuing therefrom, is a large circular ele-vation four feet in height, in the shapeof a
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