. American history:. hill, ter-minate near four mounds, three of which are six feet inheight, covering nearly an acre each. The fourth andlargest is twenty feet high, and has a raised walk asccnd- 2. Stone loall. 3 Ashes and-cindeis. 4. Wells. 5. Ruins typ-posiie the mouth of the Sciota River. a .See No. 7,next page. 6. Similar ruins B the tiioiith of the, Sciota, on tilt niirth side of the Ohio ; parallel trails of earth. 70 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. [Book I. ANALYSIS, ing to its summit, and another descending from it. Near 1. Mounds,wells, ^c. Parallelwalls. a mound twenty five feet in height, c
. American history:. hill, ter-minate near four mounds, three of which are six feet inheight, covering nearly an acre each. The fourth andlargest is twenty feet high, and has a raised walk asccnd- 2. Stone loall. 3 Ashes and-cindeis. 4. Wells. 5. Ruins typ-posiie the mouth of the Sciota River. a .See No. 7,next page. 6. Similar ruins B the tiioiith of the, Sciota, on tilt niirth side of the Ohio ; parallel trails of earth. 70 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. [Book I. ANALYSIS, ing to its summit, and another descending from it. Near 1. Mounds,wells, ^c. Parallelwalls. a mound twenty five feet in height, containingremains of the dead; and about a quarter of a mile this wasthe nortliwest another mound had been commenced. On thebrow of the hill is a well now twenty feet deep, and twoothers near, of less depth. From the summit of the hillare parallel walls, nearly two miles in length, extendingeastwardly to a bend in the Ohio, and thus embracing anarea of several square miles within the circuit of theworks and the 2. Ruinsthrovghmitthe Mississip-pi Valley. 3. Stone wallsin Missouri. 4. Ruins far-ther west. %. Movnils throughout the United States. 5. Their uses. 27. Ruins similar to those already mentioned are foundin great numbers throughout almost the entire valley ofthe Mississippi, but those in the State of Ohio have beenthe most carefully surveyed, and the most accurately de-scribed. Hn Missouri are the remains of several st07ieworks; and in Gasconade county are the ruins of an an-cient town, regularly laid out in streets and squares. TheAvails of the ruins were found covered with large cottontrees, a species of poplar, of full growth. ^Similar re-mains have been discovered in the territory west of theState of Missouri, and also on the Platte River, the Kan-zas, and the Arkansas. 28. ^Mounds, likewise, of various forms, square, ob-long, or circular at the base, and flat or conical at thesummit, have been found in great numbers througlioutthe United States; sometimes in
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