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Title: Descriptions of ancient works in Ohio
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886
Subjects: Mounds
Publisher: (Washington, Smithsonian Institution)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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h stronger and better defined than the others,ranging from eight to ten feet in height from the bottom of the ditch. They are notstraight or parallel, but irregular in direction as well as height, and are remarkablywell preserved. There is an appearance of slight openings, but I think them due 20 ANCIENT WORKS IN OHIO. yil. to travel in more recent times, wearing down the walls where they are crossed bypaths; for although there is no road through the works, there are very old pathsand trails, used not only by visitors, but by cattle running at large in the woods.This work appears upon the whole to have been without apertures, being in thisrespect like the one at Weymouth, Medina County, where the entrance of theoccupants was probably by temporary wood work over the walls. In a direct line, this work is about three miles from Lake Erie. The outerparallels are from fifteen to eighteen feet broad at the base, and from four to fourand a half feet high, as shown in the section a, b. < I
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