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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gest and mostnoteworthy (A, Plate IV.), lying farthest down theriver, is located upon the summit of a natural hill, andoccupies a commanding position. The earth of whichit is conrposed was gathered in the valley and con-veyed to the top of the hill so as, in the end, to in-crease its elevation by some forty-five or fifty feet.The summit diameters of this tumulus, measured northand south, and east and west, are respectively one hun-dred and eighty and two hundred feet. On the westis an artificial plateau, still about eight feet high,seventy-two feet long and ninety-three feet wide. Onthe north and east are three spurs or elevated ap-proaches, over which, as paths, the laborers, duringthe construction of the mound, carried their burdensof sand and clay in cane baskets, and, by means ofwhich, when the tumulus was completed, ascent to itssummit was rendered more facile. It is not improba-ble that this was a temple-mound, used by priests anddevotees in their established worship of the sun.
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it. o o J <rvt AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO.HYCOSBORHEi PftOCCSS.: TUMULI NEAR MACON, GEORGIA. 159 One hundred feet north of this tumulus is a secondmound (B) about ten feet high, elliptical in shape,with a summit-diameter, measured in the direction ofthe major axis, of one hundred and twenty-eight feet.Northwest of this mound and distant between threeand four hundred yards, is the third of the group (C),its outlines marred by the elements, and its northernslope carried away by the excavation for the new trackof the Central Railway. It is still about forty feethigh and is conical in form—its mean summit-diameterbeing about eighty-two feet. On its top is the decayedstump of a tree, more than five feet thick. About four hundred yards in a northeasterly direc-tion is the last tumulus of this series (D). In generalcharacteristics it closely resembles the mound lastmentioned. These mounds are all flat, and may bedescribed as truncated cones, with the exception of thetemple-mound, which as

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