p. 426

country. It derives its name from what is supposed to be the remains of an "ancient city" situated immediately below the town, consisting of an oblong enclosure about five hundred and fifty yards in length and two hundred and seventy five yards in breadth, lying along the bank of the river. The walls are twenty three feet wide at the base, and four or five feet high having an exterior semicircular enlargement or butrass every five rods, except on the side next the river [which is straight]. In some parts of the wall, especially in the butrasses, the earth of which it is composed appears to have been mixed with straw and burnt in such a manner as to resemble slightly burnt brick. There is no evidence of the substance having been moulded into any regular form like brick. Within the enclosure are several very remarkable mounds and excavations; and an unusual number of mounds, (many of them very large) are found in the immediate vicinity. The place described as "the termination of a sewer about three feet below the surface, and arched with stone", appears to be not a regular arch;-