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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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abandonment by those to whose labors their ex-istence was due. Here and there upon their summitsstill exist mouldering stumps and roots, affordingample proof of the vigor and proportions of thatgrowth which the industry of a later race has carefullyremoved. Approaching this series of tumuli from the west,the first which engages our attention (designated in theaccompanying sketch by the letter G), in general out-line nearly resembles a truncated cone; being slightlyovoidal, and with summit-diameters, measured eastand west, and north and south, of, respectively, fifty-two and forty-two feet. Its base-diameter, runningeast and west, is one hundred and forty feet. Meas-ured at right angles, it falls a little short of this.Its present altitude is sixteen feet. One hundred and fifty yards east of this mound isthe largest tumulus of the group (C). It is a trun-cated, pentagonal pyramid, its base-diameters, meas-ured north and south, and east aud west, being respec- 1 Plate II. ■Pi-cute JT.
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AM PHOTQ-UTHOGRAPHIC CO HXfOSBOHNES PROCESS ) TUMULI NEAR SPARTA, GEORGIA. 145 tively one hundred and eighty and one hundred andeighty-four feet. Its summit-diameters, ascertained inthe same directions, are respectively eighty and eighty-eight feet. This mound is forty feet high. By a reference to its profile (L), it will be per-ceived that it is higher toward the east. The approachto the summit was from the east, and the eastern thirdof the superior surface was not only elevated abovethe rest, but was also made scrupulously level. Here,a little below the surface, have been found traces of ahearth composed of baked clay or rude brick. Charredfragments of wood and other indications attest theformer continued existence of fires upon this spot. Considerable excavations have been made in theeastern slope. Composed, as it is, of the alluvial soilof the valley, the planters of the neighboring hills(entirely ignoring the claims of this ancient monu-ment to preservation and respect—we had a

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