The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . feet. The walls here are about thirty feet interior of the fortification is dotted with depressionsor sinks. They are circular in form and vary in width fromten to twenty feet. The supposition is that these pits weredwelling places of the garrisons. In the enclosure, as wellas all around it, are burial mounds, showing that the placewas quite densely populated for a very long period of
The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . feet. The walls here are about thirty feet interior of the fortification is dotted with depressionsor sinks. They are circular in form and vary in width fromten to twenty feet. The supposition is that these pits weredwelling places of the garrisons. In the enclosure, as wellas all around it, are burial mounds, showing that the placewas quite densely populated for a very long period of few miles above Jeffersonville is an elevated pear-shaped plateau or ridge. On the east is the Ohio River,which flows along washing the base of the ridge. To thewest is Fourteen Mile Creek, which, at the northern pointor neck of the ridge, almost touches the river, but makes awide sweep to the west and then to the south, finally empty-ing into the Ohio a few rods below the southern extremity ofthe high ground. From the top of this ridge is one of thefinest views to be found in the West. The extreme northernpoint is two hundred and eighty feet above the level of the 48 HISTOEY OF OIvD STONE FORT IN CLARK COUNTY. river, and from it the ,broad and beautiful river may be seenfor many miles each way. It also overlooks the shore ofKentucky far to the east and south, and to the west are thefertile acres of Indiana. This pear-shaped ridge was forti-fied and strengthened by the Mound Builders until it be-came, for that period and for their mode of warfare, aperfect Gibraltar. The area enclosed is a space about fifteen ARCHEOLOGY. 49 hundred feet long and five hundred feet wide at its widestpoint. At the northern point the ridge is two hundred andeighty feet above the main land and slopes gradually to thesouthward, until at the lower timber line it is only one hun-dred and twenty feet above the river. The bottom land atthe south end is sixty feet above the river. Along t
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