American antiquities, and researches into the origin and history of the red race / By Alexander W. Bradford.

  • Bradford, Alexander W. (Alexander Warfield), 1815-1867.
Date:
1843
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Credit: American antiquities, and researches into the origin and history of the red race / By Alexander W. Bradford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    distances apart. A sort of covert way, formed of two parallel walls, two hundred and thirty-one feet apart, defended the approach to the Muskingum; the walls were forty-two feet wide at the base, twenty-one feet high within, and five feet high on the outer sides. A line of smaller parallel walls leads down to the water from the corner of the fortification. Within the area enclosed, at the north-west corner, was an oblong ter- race, nine feet high ; at the middle of each of its sides the earth was projected, forming gradual ascents to the top, ten feet in width. Near the south wall was another terrace, nearly simi- lar ; at the south-east corner was another; about the middle was a circular elevation; and at the south-west corner was a semicircular parapet, covered wuth a mound, which guarded the gateway or entrance in that quarter. The other enclosure had a gatewmy in the middle of each side, and at the corners wms defended by circular mounds. A short distance from its south-east side was a conical mound, one hundred and fifteen feet in diameter, thirty feet high, and sur- rounded by a ditch and embankment, through which there was a gateway opening towards the fortification. The mound was protected in addition by outworks, and parapets, and other mounds. There were also found here excavations,—originally of great size and depth,—still perceptible; which were probably wells, and supplied the inhabitants with water. Upon a branch of the same river, ninety miles from Marietta, a series of works, consisting of entrenchments and mounds, extended about two miles in length, and the ramparts and mounds were of much greater height than those at Marietta.^ Near Newark, in Licking county, another extensive succes- * Description of the Ohio River, p. 19.—Colum. Mag., May, 1787.