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Identifier: ohioarchological00ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
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in short, in purpose asthey do in form, with those which they so much resemble inMexico and Central America. Do not these enclosed structuresgive us the clue to the purposes of the works with which theyare connected? As heretofore remarked, the sacred grounds ofalmost every people are set apart or designated by enclosures ofsome kind. * * * There are no other works in the immediate vicinity ofMarietta. At Parkersburgh, Virginia, on the Ohio, twelve milesbelow, there is an enclosure of irregular form and considerableextent. There are also works at Belpre,* opposite Parkersburgh. * In my paper on Blennerhassetts Island (Smithsonian Report for1882, p. 767), I called attention to the miniature representation of the Ancient Works at Marietta, Ohio. 63 The valley of the Muskingum is for the most part narrow,affording few of those broad, level and fertile terraces, whichappear to have been the especial favorites of the race of Mound-builders, and upon which most of their monuments are found.
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IX. SUPPLEMENTARY PLAN, AFTER COL. CHAS. WHITTLESEY. As a consequence, we find few remains of magnitude in thatvalley, until it assumes a different aspect, in the vicinity of Zanes-ville, ninety miles from its mouth. conical mound at Marietta, located on the plain of Belpre, opposite theisle, having the wall, interior ditch, and the elevated gateway leadingfrom the mound to the gateway. 64 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications. The supplemental plan (Fig. 9) is of very great importanceon account of the relative proportions of the works. The sectionmarked z h gives the Via Sacra, and i u the conical mound withaccompanying wall. OTHER PUBLICATIONS. As heretofore remarked all books published since that bySquier & Davis, and which treat of the Marietta antiquities,are largely indebted to Ancient Monuments. Some of theselater publications are of value, while others use the descriptionsto bolster up a theory. It is not the object here to give anaccount of these more recent books, how

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