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��These ancient corn-fields on Assonet neck are much more exten- sive than those of Northampton, where we have also observed them. This neck comprises about twelve hundred acres, lying in an angle at the confluence of the Taunton and Assonet rivers. It was one of the few places near Narragansett bay which remained

���FIG. ii. Indian corn-hills at Assonet neck, Mass, (i) In woods on Delabarre farm; (2) Coombes Pasture, looking south along rows; (3) Coombes Pasture, looking southwest; (4) Coombes Pasture, looking southwest along diagonals; (5) Coombes Pasture, looking southwest along diagonals: (6) Bennett Pasture, looking southwest along diagonals.

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