. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, ameter,(marked B on the map.) It occurs on the elevated land,surrounded by forest trees, but none growing eitherwithin the enclosure or upon the walls. The work isincomplete, being composed of four mounds, three feet inheight, corresponding with the cardinal points of thecompass. Between the mounds the Avails gradually taperuntil they meet midway. The ditch is on the inside. Itis regular and of equal
. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, ameter,(marked B on the map.) It occurs on the elevated land,surrounded by forest trees, but none growing eitherwithin the enclosure or upon the walls. The work isincomplete, being composed of four mounds, three feet inheight, corresponding with the cardinal points of thecompass. Between the mounds the Avails gradually taperuntil they meet midway. The ditch is on the inside. Itis regular and of equal depth at all points. The moundsare composed of clay, and Att from the general ap-pearance it Avould seem that the intention Avas to take thesurface material from Avithin the enclosure, and out of itmake at least a portion of the wall. These mounds mayrepresent the original height of the proposed AA-all. Onething should not escape our attention, and that is theditch preserAes the same proportion the whole distance. UXION TOWNSHIP. 173 It is no wider or deeper opposite the mounds than it isbetween them. Our eugraving, (Fig. 47), does not giveus a good representation of this work. The mounds. Fig. Work, Union Township.* should be more prominent, and the walls between them should be connected and much narrower. To give a more *Surveyed by W. H. Harr and J. P. MacLean. Delineated bythe latter. 174 UXIOX TOWNSHIP. correct illustration, another cut was made, but it (), does not represent Avhat Ave Avant. This work is onthe east side of the same stream, upon whose bank islocated the Avork in Fig. 46, and distant from it about
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