. 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, ast, Reily on the south, and theIndiana state line on the west. We here meet with high land. The farms are small,and the agricultural population quite large for the terri-tory embraced. With tiie exception of two or moresections, the land nominally belongs to Miami trustees of the University leased the land forninety-nine years, renewable forever, subject to the 204 OXFORD TOAV^-SHIP.
. 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, ast, Reily on the south, and theIndiana state line on the west. We here meet with high land. The farms are small,and the agricultural population quite large for the terri-tory embraced. With tiie exception of two or moresections, the land nominally belongs to Miami trustees of the University leased the land forninety-nine years, renewable forever, subject to the 204 OXFORD TOAV^-SHIP. annual payment of a quit rent of six per cent, on thepurciiase money. Indian Creek runs through the southwestern corner,and through the eastern part of the township in asoutherly direction flows Four Mile Creek. In placesthe valley of the latter is deep and narrow, and notinfrequently presenting bold or precipitous banks. An ancient fortification occurs on the land of H. , section thirty-six, marked J. on the map. It issituated on a bold headland with precipitous banks,rising sixty feet above the creek. At this point FourMile makes a remarkable bend, constituting a peninsula N _ I. Fig. Foktificatiox.* one thousand and sixty feet across the neck. Across thisneck is carried a crescent-shaped wall with an outerditch, thus enclosing an area of twenty acres. A portionof the wall is on the dividing line between Oxford andMilford Townships. A plan of this work is given inFig. 58. There is a gateway at the point c twenty feetwide. At the point d the bank is perpendicular. Theletter B represents the low ground bordering the stream.*From a survey by James McBride, in 1832. OXFORD TOWNSHIP. 205 The declivity at the point h is steep and difficult ofascent. The wall is carried along the bank at that point,probably designed to protect the flank of the wall has been plowed down, but is easily traced by aswell in the ground. When we visited the spot thegreate
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