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tion is on the Scioto bottom adjacent to the river, and is shaped thus. Map of an ancient fortification along the Scioto River Ancient Fortification on Scioto River. A pictorial representa-tion of this Indian antiquity has been published in the Smithson-ian Contributions to Knowledge, vol, I, plate xviii. The bank of earth thrown up around the for-tification is about six feet high, surrounded by a ditch upon the outside, now four feet in width, and as many in depth. The bank is covered with lofty timber, as is also the ground within the intrenchment. There are several mounds such as have heretofore been described in the vicinity, and within the town of Chilicothe there is another fortification of which the diameter is about 450 feet. Near this is the largest mound