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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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eneral observations, we pro-ceed to consider the physical peculiarities of some ofthe most interesting and prominent groups of ancientmounds and enclosures within the present geographicallimits of Georgia. The first we shall notice are located upon the rightbank of the Etowah River, on the plantation of Colo-nel Lewis Tumlin, a few miles from Cartersville, inBartow County. Viewed as a whole, this group isthe most remarkable within the confines of the State.These mounds are situated in the midst of a beautifuland fertile valley. They occupy a central position inan area of some fifty acres, bounded on the south andeast by the Etowah River, and on the north and westby a large ditch or artificial canal, which at its lowerend communicates directly with the river. This moat(G G, Plate I.) at present varies in depth from five totwenty-five feet, and in width from twenty to seventy-five feet. No parapets or earth-walls appear upon itsedges. Along its line are two reservoirs (D D), of Plate /.
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AM PHOTO LtTHOGPAPHlC CO. 1*1. OSBQRNiS P*tlC£S$ ) MOUNDS IN THE ETOWAH VALLEY. 137 about an acre each, possessing an average depth of notless than twenty feet, and its upper end expands intoan artificial pond (P), elliptical in form, and somewhatdeeper than the excavations mentioned. Within the enclosure formed by this moat and theriver are seven mounds. Three of them are preeminentin size, the one designated in the accompanying plan(Plate I) by the letter A, far surpassing the othersboth in its proportions and in the degree of interestwhich attaches to it. To the eye of the observer, as it rests for the firsttime upon its towering form, it seems a monument ofthe past ages, venerable in its antiquity, solemn, silent,and yet not voiceless, a remarkable exhibition of thepower and industry of a former race. With its erectionthe modern hunter tribes, so far as our informationextends, had naught to do. Composed of earth, sim-ple, yet impressive in form, it seems calculated for analmost e

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