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Paint Creek Caves and Gorge\. (B3.) 

 Gorge of Rocky Fork of Paint Creek; 

 walls (Niagara limestone) precipitous, 

 in some places more than 100 ft. high; 

 covered with mosses, lichens, and ferns. 

 Original forest with most of the native 

 hardwoods; some evergreens — red cedar, 

 arbor vitae, and hemlock. Stream is 

 ideal for game fish, having deep pools of 

 cool water; subject to turbulent drain- 

 age, but with cavernous protection. 



Bainbridge, Ross County (D. T. & I. 

 R. R.), 5 mi. west (a, w). 



HillsboroJ, Highland County (B. & 

 O.), 13 mi. east on Cincinnati and 

 Chillicothe Pike (a). — Louis Kuertz. 



Reference: 

 Howe, Henry. 1896. Historical Col- 

 lections of Ohio, I: 920. 



Map: Bainbridge quadrangle. 



"Hills and Dales" ' and "Moraine 

 Park." (C4.) State Game Preserve. 

 About 5000 acres of river bottoms, steep 

 ridges of gravel, "kettle hollows," ra- 

 vines and hillsides. Hilly portions 

 wooded (deciduous forest); arable land; 

 cleared 100 years ago. 760-1000 ft.; 

 rolling. 



Daytonf, south on Oakwood car line 

 or Ohio Electric. — William B. Werthner. 



Map: Waynesville quadrangle. 



"Triangle Park." (C4.) About 145 

 acres along the Miami and Stillwater 

 rivers; about 30 acres in almost virgin 

 woodland. 780 ft.; rolling. 



DaytonI, just north of corporation 

 line. — William B. Werthner. 



Reference: 

 Soil Survey of Montgomery County. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Soils; in 

 cooperation with Ohio Agr. Exp. 

 Sta. 



Map: Dayton quadrangle. 



*Fort Ancient. (B4.) The largest 

 prehistoric fortification in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley. The park contains 310 

 acres of which about 100 acres are within 

 the walls of the prehistoric fortification. 

 The distance around the enclosure is 

 about 3J mi. The steep slopes bordering 

 Randall and Cowen Runs, and the Little 

 Miami River, are wooded. Xero-meso- 

 phytic slope forests on sandv and 

 gravelly soil of river bluffs; mesophytic 

 forests on ravine slopes. (Deciduous 

 forests of type seen in Cincinnati 

 Region.) 670-920 ft.; rolling to sharp. 



XeniaJ, 23 mi. S.W., Pa. R. R.; Ft. 

 Ancient, Warren County. 



LovelandJ (B. k. O. and Pa. R. R.), 

 18.7 mi. N.E., Pa. R. R.; Ft. Ancient. 



MorrowJ 5.2 mi. N.E., Pa. R. R.; Ft. 

 Ancient. 



Owned by the Ohio State Archaeologi- 

 cal and Historical Society as trustees of 

 the State. 



References: 



Tichenor, W. C. 1916. A guide to 



Ft. Ancient. 

 Mills, William C. 1920. Map and 



guide to Ft. Ancient. 

 (Both guides include a bibliography of 



Ft. Ancient.) 



Map: Morrow quadrangle. 



The Cincinnati Region {8 areas). The 

 "Cincinnati Region," in which eight 

 of the areas listed are located, includes 

 a section of southwestern Ohio covered 

 by the oldest drift exposed in Ohio — 

 the Illinoian; and a small area covered 

 by the Earlier Wisconsin, which here, 

 however, is not so sharply delimited 

 from the older drift as it is farther east 

 and northeast. The region includes an 

 area of deeply dissected territory adja- 

 cent to the Ohio, the Miami and Little 

 Miami Rivers. These major valleys 

 are deeply entrenched, and their valley- 

 sides high and steep. (Ault Park Forest, 

 Camp Edgar Friedlander, and Fort 

 Ancient.) Many of the minor tribu- 

 taries enter through narrow steep-sided 

 ravines, whose sometimes intermittent 

 streams have numerous though low falls. 

 (Typical streams well exhibited in Mt. 

 Airy Forest area.) Farther from the 

 larger streams, the peneplained and 

 drift covered upland is little dissected; 

 the land in consequence is poorly 

 drained. This gives rise to particular 

 soil types with which the verj' char- 

 acteristic vegetation is correlated. 

 (Goshen and Bethel Upland Hydro- 

 phytic Forest areas.) Intermediate 

 areas of maturely dissected land, and 

 areas on the older and dissected (Illino- 

 ian) terraces, where slopes are gentle, are 

 clothed with mesophytic forests of the 

 climax type. (Caldwell Park Forest, 

 and Five-mile Creek Climax Forest.) 

 All parts of the Cincinnati Region 



