NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSt



remain
earth,
suspec
the dii
plainly
plough
are art
dead;
defend
are art
natura
  ThE



situate



with the
fort Pitt.
elevatior
of groun
or twent



1s are principally stone walls, large mounds of
ard a combination. of these mounds with the walls,
ted to have been fortifications. In some p aces
tches and the fortresses are said to have been
yseen; in others, fuirrows, as if tie land had been
ied. The mounds of earth are of two kinds; they
ificial tumuli, designed as repositories for the
or they are of a greater size for the purpose of
ing the adjacent country; and with this view they
ificially constructed, or advantage is taken of the
I eminences, to raise them into a fortification.
remains near the banks of the Musking um, are
d about one mile ;above the iunction of that river



Ohio, and a hut
  They consist (
is of ditches, &c4
id about three hu
y feet broad. rpTE



laroe level, encompassed
a sqn are, the sides of whic
six perches ill length.



s



idred and sixty Iniu
)f a number of walls
I altogether occupyir
ndred and fifty to t
i town, as it had been
by wvaIis, nearlv in f
It are fromn ninety-six
These walls are, it



[es
ar
Ig
ye
cal
he
to



S below
id other
a space
nty-five
lied, is a
form. of
i eighty-



n general,



bout ten feet in heio'ht tabove thee level on whi'h they
tand, and about twenty feet in diameter at the base, but



at the t



overf rc
others,
chasms
for cratE
besides
walls ti
Iieigh t,
conside
menti.oi
Mississ
or sorm



op they are much narrower; th
:wn with vezetables of different b
with trees of several feet ij
or opening in the walls, were p
,.ways; they are three in nmumnbe
the smaller openiwrs in the aug
were are three elevations, each
with regrular ascents to them.
ZrAbly resemble some of the em
iAed, which have been discovere
ippi. 'T'his author's opin ion1 is%
e other Mexican iatiOn, were th4



the mounds and fortifications,



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hich hi



ey are at present
inds, and among
diameter. rphe
robably intended
r on each side,
les. Within the
Elbout six feet in
These elevations
inences already
I near the river
that the Tolticas,
e people to whom
ee has described,



owe their existence. T'his conjecture is thought probable,
from the similarityof the Mexican fortificationsdescribed
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