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ENUMERATION

Of the Sites of Ancient Towns and Monuments of Kentucky, &c.

THE following Catalogue contains the first general account ever pub lished of the ancient monuments hitherto discovered in this State, the greatest part of which have been discovered, surveyed, drawn, and described by myself in my large manuscript work on the antiquities of Kentucky, which has nearly 100 maps and views. As a further illustration of the subject, I add a short account of the monuments of the surrounding States, so intimately connected with ours. They are all very ancient, except these marked L. which appear to be less ancient (from 100 to 1000 years) and to belong to the Lenapian nations.

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Bath, on the waters of Licking river

Boone, on the Ohio, a town near Burlington, &c.

Bourbon, a circus of 1450 feet on Licking River, a town, polygon of 4675 feet on Stoner's creek L. &c.

Bracken, great battle ground, &c. near Augusta, iron rings and a copper medal with unknown letters, &c.

Caldwell, a stone fort on Tradewater river

Calloway, a mound 15 feet high on Blood river
Campbell, near Covington and at Big-bone lick
Christian, near Hopkinsville, &c L.

Clarke, near Winchester, Boonesborough, &c.
Clay, near Manchester, &c.

Fayette, on North Elkhorn, a beautiful circus, a dromus, &c. on
South Elkhorn, near Lexington, a polygon town, L. several
squares, mounds, graves, &c. 9 East Indian Shells found in
the ground, &c.

Gallatin, at the mouth of the Kentucky river

Garrard, principally mounds and small circus on Paint Creek,
Sugar Creek, &c.

Greenup, fine remains opposite the mouth of the Scioti

Harlan, on the Cumberland river, near its source

Hart, mounds near Green river, &c. mummies in caves

Harrison, a circus near Cynthiana, many mounds, round, elliptical or ditched, 16, 20, 25 and 30 feet high

Hickman, a fine Teocalli on the Mississippi below the Ironbanks, 450 feet long 10 high, only 30 wide

Jefferson, on the Ohio near Louisville

Jessamine, mounds, graves, embankments,

Knox, On the Cumberland river, and near Barboursville
Lewis, on the Ohio

Total No. of Sites Mons.

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COUNTIES, &c.

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Livingston, an octogone of 2852 feet on Hurricane creek, &c. mouth of the Cumberland

Logan, towns and mounds on Muddy river, &c. a silver medal found in a mound

Madison, near the Kentucky, &c. mounds, &c.

Mason, near Washington, a small teocalli

M'Crachan, on the Ohio, a fine square teocalli of 1200 feet and 14 high, on the Mississipi, 5 rows of mounds, &c.

Mercer, a fort on Dick'a river, several remains on Salt river, &c. Montgomery, squares, hexagons, polygons, &c. on Somerset and Buck creek, many high, round, elliptical or ditched mounds. A fine circus of circular temple, &c.

Pendleton, at the fork of Licking river

Perry, a long dromus near Hazard

Pulaski, stone mounds on Pitman and Buck creeks

Rockcastle, a stone grave 200 feet long, 5 wide, 3 high, neàr
Mountvernon

Scott, a ditched town near Georgetown, on the South Elkhorn,
a square on Dry-run, &c.

Shelby, near Shelbyville, and south of it

Trigg, a walled town, 7500 feet in circumference, at Canton, on
the Cumberland, inclosing several large mounds and a square
Teocalli 150 feet long, 90 wide, 22 high. Many mounds on
Cumberland, Little river, Cadiz, &c.

Warren, a ditched town, irregular octogone of 1385 feet on
Bigbarren river, near Bowling green, inclosing 5 houses, and
2 teocallis. Mounds, &c.

Whitley, a town on the Cumberland, above Williamsburgh, with 20 houses, and a teocalli 360 feet long, 150 wide, 12 high.Remains of towns with houses on the waters of Laurel river and Watts creek

Woodford, a fine octogon teocalli of 1200 feet, and 8 high. A town of 2700 feet on South Elkhorn, a square on Clear creek, &c.

The total number of ancient sites known to me in Kentucky, a148 505 mounts therefore to 148, and the ancient remains or monuments are 505. Those already known to me in the remainder of North America, are the following.

14 | 54 In Alabama, many towns. forts, mounds, &c. An elliptical teocalli of 800 feet, and 15 high, on Cedar creek. A teocalli of 1120 feet, and 75 high, on the Etowee. A circus of 25 acres in Jones' valley, with a square teocalli in the centre, of 720 feet and 30 high, &c..

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Arkanzas, towns, mounds, &c. several mounds and teocallis, as high as 40 feet, below the town of Arkanzas. Remains of a town built of sunburnt bricks, on the St Francis river, &c. 7 Canada, mounds and forts between lake Huron and Erie Connecticut, inscribed rocks at Seaticook and Tiverton. L. Florida, many embankments, excavations, mounds, &c. not very ancient,L.-Many high mounds, avennes and artificial ponds or tanks, near lake George, &c.

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Georgia, many large square teocallis, some with 3 stories; and ayenues leading to square excayations on the Oakmulge, &c

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Four square teocallis and 4 square excavations near Apalichicola. Two oval teocallis on Sooquee creek, one is 100 feet high, the other 40. A stone fort on a high hill, &c.

12 170 IN Illinois, many conical mounds in the American bottom, on the

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Mississipi; a squared teocalli of 1200 feet, 100 high, and with 2 sloping stages on the Cahokia; a square teocalli of 600 feet and 20 high, near St. Louis.-A stone fort on Saline river. Mounds near the mouth of the Chic, &c. Indiana, towns and mounds on the Wabash, White river and the Ohio, near the falls, &c.

Lousiana, many mounds on the Mississipi, at Baton Rouge, &c. Four square teocallis of 240 feet and 22 high, equal, forming a square, joined by a wall and ditch, with an avenue leading to a conical teocalli 115 feet high, (spiral road on it) on Bayou Cataoulou. Five mounds of shells near lake Cataqulou is 80 feet high. A high mound on Red river, built in 1728 by the Natchez. Many in Tensa, &c.

Maine, a conical teocalli of 600 feet, 50 high; with a paved summit, on the river Kennebeck

Massachussets, the sculptured rocks of Dighton, and the inscrib-
ed stone of Rutland, of which many opinions have been form-
ed, supposed Atlantic, Phoenician, Coptic or Lenapian !
Mexico, many towns, teocallis, stone buildings, &c. in Anahuąc.
Michuacan, Yucatan, Guatimala, &c.

Michigan, towns, forts and mounds on river Huron, lake St.
Clair, near Detroit, &c.

Mississipi, several square, octogon and round teocallis on the
Mississipi, Yazoo, &c. A great teocalli at Sultzertown with
mounds on it, 90 feet high. A teocalli 150 feet long, 100
broad, 35 high near Natchez. A teocalli of 2650 feet square,
20 feet high, on Big-black river, with a wall and ditch 2400 fee
long, joining the highlands, &c.
Missouri, many mounds, forts, graves, &c. at the mouth of Osage,
Missouri, Merrimack, Chepousa, &c. 27 mounds and a pris-
matic teocalli at St Louis. A square teocalli of 800 feet and
14 high, below the mouth of Ohio. A conical teocalli of 1200
feet, 40 high, with a ditch on the lake Chepousa, &c.
Multnomah Country, on the Pacific ocean. Several towns and

mounds on the Columbia or Multnomah river
Nadowessie or Sioux Country, or Upper Mississipį. Many forts,
excavations and mounds on the river St Peter, Menomonie,
Gaspard, Wapisinekan, &c. A poligon below lake Pepin,
A small square teocalli on Racine river, lat. 44
New-Mexico. Ruins of towns built of clay or stones, in Sonora
on the Rio-gila and in Cibola, lat 36, &c.

New-York. All in the western part of the state, the most easterly site is on the river Chenango Many ancient towns, forts and mounts, on the rivers Seneka, Genessee, Black, &c. near Auburn, Pompey, Buffaloe, Onondago, Canandaigua, &c. some of which appear modern or built by the Menguy nation: an inscription with unknown letters was found at Onondago. A circus at Unadilla, two parallel rows of towns or forts extending 50 miles, on the ancient shores of lake Erie,

Total No. of

Sites Mons.

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COUNTIES, &c.

Many towns south of lake Ontario, beyond the mountain ridge or most ancient land, very ancient, &c.

8 IN North Carolina, some mounds near Saraw, towns on Holston river. On Enoe river 2 inscriptions were found in ploughing, on octogon stone pillar and a circular piece of brass! with unknown letters!-In Rowan County, 2 iron-stone walls under ground, supposed basaltic by many, but erroneously. Ohio, this state contains numerous fine monuments like Kentucky, but only a part have been described, although more than of any other state; another portion has been surveyed by myself, many are yet hardly known

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At Cincinnati, a large town, circus, mounds, &c.

On Paint Creek, 3 towns with stone walls, mounds, teocallis, &c.
At the mouth of Scioto, a town, dromus, mounds, &c.

At Circleville, a fine circus and mound

Near Chillicothe, five towns, with temples, avenues, &e.

In Belmont county, a mound of 16 feet, where iron and silver has been found

On Lake Erie, many towns in Ashtabula cty. with mounds, &c.
On the Little Miami, many towns, stone forts, temples, &c. a
copper coin was found with Persian letters!

At Marietta, a town, mounds, &c. a silver cup found there
Near Newark, 2 towns, with avenues, pits, mounds, etc.

In Perry county, a town with a stone mound

Mouth of Big Miami, a stone fort, a town with round pits,
mound and ditch, elleptical teocalli 550 feet, 25 high.
Mouth of Maumee, a town and fort

On Twin creek, two elleptical teocallis

Many other monuments near Granville, Franklinton, Worthing-
ton, New Athens, Gallipolis, etc.

28 In Panis, county of Upper Missouri, many fortified towns on the
Missouri, at the mouth of Osage, Chayenne, Laplate; also on
rivers Kanzas, Laplate, Yellowstone, Jaques, etc. Two squares
of 1200 feet on Petit-ark creek. A large pit 200 feet long,
130 wide, 30 deep, near the Panis, etc.
Pennsylvania, mostly in the western parts; mounds and forts
near Pittsburgh. Near Meadville 7 circles, mounds, etc.
veral towns and forts on the Monongahela, also carved rocks.
On the Allegheny, some towns, etc. A town on a hill near the
Tyoga river with a circus, etc.

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South Carolina, near Cambden, in the Wateree, many monuments, a teocalli 20 feet high, a wall or parapet three miles long! wrongly supposed to be built by Soto, who never was there.

Tennessee; this state was anciently united to Kentucky and its monuments are very important for our history

On the south fork of Forcadeer river, several towns, teocallis, mounds ; the finest pyramid of the United States is there, it is 150 feet high, 1200 feet at the base, 120 at the top, perfectly square. It was discovered only in 1822.

On Duck river, a stone fort

Near Clarksville, on the Cumberland, a town, many teocallis; and near Palmyra, on Ditto, another town, busts found there.

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