STATION. BEARING. DISTANCE. 1 N. 75° E. 300 feet. 2 N. 45° E. 300 feet. 3 N. 15° E. 300 feet. 4 N. 15° W. 300 feet. 5 N. 45° W. 300 feet. 6 N. 75° W. 300 feet. 7 S. 75° W. 300 feet. 8 S. 45° W. 300 feet. 9 S. 15° W. 300 feet. 10 S. 15° E. 300 feet. 11 S. 45° E. 300 feet. 12 S. 75° E. 300 feet.
[43] Indicated by the letter B, in Map 1, Plate III. This and the succeeding work are represented by Mr. Atwater in the Archæologia Americana, vol. i. p. 146; with what fidelity, an inspection of the respective plans will show.
[44] Indicated by the letter A, in Map 2, Plate III.
[45] Mr. Atwater («Archæologia Americana», vol. i. p. 143) describes the small mound at «e», as composed “entirely of red ochre, which answers very well as a paint!” Its «present» composition is a clayey loam. It has been examined and found to contain an altar.
[46] This work is designated by the letter H on the Map, already several times referred to, Plate II.
[47] Their general character is indicated in Map, Plate II.
[48] The site of the town of Frankfort was formerly that of a famous Shawnee town. The burial place of the Indian town is shown in the plan; from it numerous relics are obtained,—gun-barrels, copper kettles, silver crosses and brooches, and many other implements and ornaments which, in accordance with aboriginal custom, were buried with the dead. Some of them, from being found in close proximity to the work above described, have erroneously been supposed to appertain to the race of the mound-builders.
[49] Archæologia Americana, vol. i. p. 142.
[50] This group is indicated by G in the Map, Plate II.
[52] The proportions of the circles, etc., are necessarily somewhat exaggerated in the plan: their relative positions are, however, very accurately preserved.
[53] There are some singular structures in Sweden, which coincide very nearly with this remarkable little work. They are circles composed of upright stones, having short avenues of approach upon each side, opposite each other, in the manner here represented. See «Sjöborg’s Samlingar för Nordens Fornälskare», 1822.
[54] A number of plans of these works, as well as of those at Marietta, have been published; but they are all very defective, and fail to convey an accurate conception of the group. The map here given is from an original and very careful and minute survey made in 1836, by CHAS. WHITTLESEY, Esq., Topographical Engineer of the State of Ohio, corrected and verified by careful re-surveys and admeasurements by the authors. It may be relied upon as strictly correct. A large portion of the more complicated division of the group has, within the past few years, been almost completely demolished, so that the lines can no longer be satisfactorily traced. It is to be hoped that care may be taken to preserve the remainder from a like fate. The principal structures will always resist the reducing action of the plough: but, from present indications, the connecting lines and smaller works will soon be levelled to the surface, and leave but a scanty and doubtful trace of their former symmetry.