Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . And as my web grows darker too,Accursed seems this empty room; I know I must forever weave These phantoms by this hateful loom. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. BY E. G. 1. —GEEAT 8EEPENT, AP^VilS COUNTY, OniO, DOUBTLESS of the same sacred and sym-bolical origin, but quite different from theworks before described, is the singular serpentinestructure represented in the accompanying plan(Figure 1). It is unquestionably, in many re-spects, the most extraordinary and interestingm
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . And as my web grows darker too,Accursed seems this empty room; I know I must forever weave These phantoms by this hateful loom. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. BY E. G. 1. —GEEAT 8EEPENT, AP^VilS COUNTY, OniO, DOUBTLESS of the same sacred and sym-bolical origin, but quite different from theworks before described, is the singular serpentinestructure represented in the accompanying plan(Figure 1). It is unquestionably, in many re-spects, the most extraordinary and interestingmonument of antiquity yet discovered in theUnited States. It is situated on the right bankof Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, near apoint known as Three Forks, on the summitof a high crescent-formed hill, elevated 150 feetabove the level of the creek at its base. The hillpresents toward the stream a perpendicular wallof rock, but on the opposite side slopes rapidly,but is not so abrupt as to preclude summit of the hill is not level, but slightlyconvex, presenting a surface about 150 feet wideand 1000 feet long, measuring from its extremityto the point where it connects with the table-land,of which it may be regarded as a spur. Con-forming to the longitudinal curve
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