. Book of the Royal blue . at the home of the artisan. But Flint Ridge gives the reader buta partial idea of the Mound Builder as alithologist. In many places in the county,where not either wantonly torn down orused for modern walls, much of theirpeculiar stone work yet remains. About twelve miles south of Newark andwithin a mile and a half of the tracks of theShawnee division of the Baltimore & Ohioroad, is a remarkable piece of stone cuttingby these people, which has nearly escapedthe eye of men learned in the study. Acircular fort on a stone cliff overhanging astream of water has a frontage
. Book of the Royal blue . at the home of the artisan. But Flint Ridge gives the reader buta partial idea of the Mound Builder as alithologist. In many places in the county,where not either wantonly torn down orused for modern walls, much of theirpeculiar stone work yet remains. About twelve miles south of Newark andwithin a mile and a half of the tracks of theShawnee division of the Baltimore & Ohioroad, is a remarkable piece of stone cuttingby these people, which has nearly escapedthe eye of men learned in the study. Acircular fort on a stone cliff overhanging astream of water has a frontage on the the exposed side no walls are raised, butit is defended by galleries cut in the sand-stone on a plan puzzling to the strategists ofhistoric times. Near it are several stonemounds and a great number of earthenones. Some idea of their size may begained by saying that two of the stonemounds were taken by the State in 1852 tostrengthen a menaced wall in BuckeyeLake, then used as a reservoir for the AN EARTFIEN MOUND and the stone taken from the mounds madea wall three and a half miles long, with anaverage width of fourteen feet. Of thetwo mounds yet remaining, one measures180 by 50 feet and 18 feet high; the other150 feet long, 40 feet wide and 20 feet of the mounds have been tamperedwith, and not always by well-informedpersons, but many still remain intact, exceptfor the wear of the ages. One opened near Jacksontown containeda coffin hewn from a solid log, and withthe remains of some person of prominencein the race departed. Beside it was aquantity of fine relics in bone, stone, shelland copper. Many of the mounds containquantities of pearls gathered from themollusks which abound in the glacialstreams of Ohio. The Mound Builderappreciated them as ornaments, boringholes in them and using them as beads. Another interesting mound and one pre-served from the curious is the earthen oneat Iairmont, six miles southeast of the hill on which it s
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