Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . efeet broad. A little to the south and left of thisinclosure is a mound, B, three feet high, sur-rounded by a ditch and exterior embankment, theditch and Avail being interrupted for a narrowspace on the north, so form a gate-way or levelapproach to the mound. The peculiarities ofthe other works of the group are sufficiently ob-vious from the plan. The mound in whichone of the crescent-shaped works terminates, isseven feet high by forty-five feet base, and wasexcavated in 1845. It was found to belong tothe class denominated sacred.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . efeet broad. A little to the south and left of thisinclosure is a mound, B, three feet high, sur-rounded by a ditch and exterior embankment, theditch and Avail being interrupted for a narrowspace on the north, so form a gate-way or levelapproach to the mound. The peculiarities ofthe other works of the group are sufficiently ob-vious from the plan. The mound in whichone of the crescent-shaped works terminates, isseven feet high by forty-five feet base, and wasexcavated in 1845. It was found to belong tothe class denominated sacred. That these workswere not defensive is obvious; and that theywere dedicated to religious purposes seems morethan probable. A group somewhat analogous to that lastdescribed occurs on the east bank of the SciotoRiver, eight miles north of Chilicothe (Figure11). It is, however, distinguished by two sin-gular parallels, A and B of the plan, each ofwhich is seven hundred and fifty feet long bysixty broad, measuring from centre to centre of - SCALE 100 0 ]
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