The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . ch other are two groups of interestingworks, some of them in an excellent state of bluffs on the south side of White Eiver rise to a heightof seventy-five feet. A broad and deep ravine extends ahundred or more feet to the southwest. Just south of theravine, so as to be protected by it, and yet so as to overlookthe river, the j)rincipal work is located. It is a circular em-bankme
The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . ch other are two groups of interestingworks, some of them in an excellent state of bluffs on the south side of White Eiver rise to a heightof seventy-five feet. A broad and deep ravine extends ahundred or more feet to the southwest. Just south of theravine, so as to be protected by it, and yet so as to overlookthe river, the j)rincipal work is located. It is a circular em-bankment ten feet high, sixty-nine feet wide at the base, andbroad enough on top to furnish a pleasant driveway for car-riages. On the inside is a ditch sixty feet wide and ten feetdeep. The diameter of the circle is four hundred feet. Onthe southwest is a gateway thirty feet wide, the ditch ter- 52 HISTORY OF INDIANA. minating on each side of the entrance. To the west of thisare four other smaller enclosures, and to the east and south-west are three more. A half mile up the river is anothergroup almost equally interesting. The magnitude of suchworks can be best gauged by a mention of the tools which. PREHISTORIC WORKS IN MADISON COUNTY. were employed. It must be remembered that the buildershad no tools except rude stone spades, never more thanthree inches wide, and that they possessed no beasts of bur-den, or vessels, in which to carry the earth, except small wil-low baskets. If the canal was filled with water for an ad-ditional protection to the garrison, the water had to becarried, in small earthern jars, up a steep bluff seventy-fivefeet high. In nearly every case where a canal is found itis on the inside of the structure, and not on the outside, asin more modern times. ARCHEOLOGY. 53 There is still another of their works worthy of Winchester, in Randolph County, are the remains of aunique and beautiful walled enclosure. It is not only thelargest in the State, but
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