Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . interior mound orelevation. In some of the larger structures theopenings are more numerous. A few of thisdescription of remains have been discoveredwhich are octagonal. One of large size, in thevicinity of Chilicothe, has the alternate anglescoincident with each other, and the sides equal. Another description of works, probably akinto those here described, are the parallels, con-sisting of light embankments, seven or eighthundred feet in length, and sixty or eightyapart. Indeed so various are these works, and so nu-merous their co
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . interior mound orelevation. In some of the larger structures theopenings are more numerous. A few of thisdescription of remains have been discoveredwhich are octagonal. One of large size, in thevicinity of Chilicothe, has the alternate anglescoincident with each other, and the sides equal. Another description of works, probably akinto those here described, are the parallels, con-sisting of light embankments, seven or eighthundred feet in length, and sixty or eightyapart. Indeed so various are these works, and so nu-merous their combinations, that it is impossibleto convey any accurate conception of them with-out entering into a minuteness of detail and anextent of illustration utterly beyond the limitsof this paper. If we are right in tlie assumptionthat they are of sacred origin, and were the tem-ples and consecrated grounds of the ancient peo-ple, we can, from their number and extent, formsome estimate of the devotional fervor or super-stitious zeal which induced their erection, and. 10.—GEOITP OF WOEKS ON TAFNT CBEEE, OmO, 30 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. the predominance of the religious sentimentamong their builders. Figure 10 affords a good illustration of thesimpler forms of the structures under group occurs on the banks of Paint Creek,about two miles to the southwest of the city ofChilicothe, Ohio, and consists of four circles,three crescents, two square works, and fourmounds. The inclosure A is the largest, and,in common with all the rest, consists of a w^allthree feet high, with an interior ditch. Thewalls at its sides are each two hundred and forty-feet long, much curved, so as to give it exterior-ly somewhat the form of a circle. The areabounded by the ditch is, however, an exactsquare of one hundred and sixty feet side, en-tered from the south by a gate-way twenty-fivefeet broad. A little to the south and left of thisinclosure is a mound, B, three feet high, sur-rounded by a di
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