History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . ( HISTOEY OF 27 is joined to the neck of an artificial wall, made by piling up, masonfashion but without mortar, loose stone, which had evidently beenpried up from the carboniferous layers of rock. This made wall,
History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . ( HISTOEY OF 27 is joined to the neck of an artificial wall, made by piling up, masonfashion but without mortar, loose stone, which had evidently beenpried up from the carboniferous layers of rock. This made wall, atthis point, is about 150 feet long. It is built along the slope of thehill and had an elevation of about 75 feet above its base, the upperten feet being vertical. The inside of the wall is protected by aditch. The remainder of the hill is protected by an artificial stonewall, built in the same manner, but not more than ten feet elevation of the side wall above the creek bottom is 80 the artificial walls is a string of mounds which rise to theheight of the wall, and are protected from the washing of the hill-sides by a ditch 20 feet wide and four feet deep. The position ofthe artificial walls, natural cliffs of bedded stone, as well as that ofthe ditch and mounds, are well illustrated. The top of the enclosedridge embraces ten or twelve acres,
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