Exploration of the Tremper Mound / by William Corless Mills.

  • William Corless Mills
Date:
1917
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Exploration of the Tremper Mound / by William Corless Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Davis, 1846, page 83, with a drawing of the mound, shown as plate 29, after the survey of Charles Whittlesey. The work is designated as an “Ancient Work and Animal Effigy, Scioto county, Ohio”. Mr. Whittlesey’s drawing is herewith repro¬ duced, as Fig. I, for comparison with the drawing. Fig. 2, made hy Mr. George H. Miehls, surveyor for the Society’s field ex¬ plorations. In their description of the Tremper mound Squier & Davis say: AND ANIMAL EFFICY^ SCIOTO COU/^TY OHIO. C/rns. tvSu^-veyar-,Sc clel. Fig. 1. Ancient Work and Animal Effigy, After Whittlesey. DESCRIPTION BY SQUIER & DAVIS. “This singular work is situated five miles north of Ports¬ mouth, Scioto county, Ohio, on the west bank of the Scioto river. It is not a true ellipse, but approaches very near it. Its longest axis is four hundred and eighty feet, its conjugate diameter four hundred and seven feet. It iS’ built upon a high and beautiful level, elevated some sixty or seventy feet above the Scioto river, which flows about half a mile to the eastward.