Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio, Vol. 2: Part 4: Exploration of the Westenhaver Mound (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio, Vol. 2: Part 4: Exploration of the Westenhaver Mound The site of the earthwork is a level plateau, comprising the first bottom of the Scioto river, which at this point is elevated almost fifty feet above low-water mark of that stream. The river, which is distant only a few hundred feet from the site of the mound, encroaches so closely upon the terrace forming the first level above its bed, that barely enough room existed for the construction of the Ohio canal, the natural waterway being separated from the artificial one only by a narrow towpath. The land comprising this first bottom is typical of this rich section of the Scioto valley, being principally a clayey loam, from two feet to ten feet deep, overlying deposits of gravel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.