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As this committee lias not made a report, in this communication will be 

 presented the latest survey, which includes the townships mentioned 

 above. The distance from Brookville to mound No. 80, the most north- 

 ern here described, is 16 miles. The townships of Liberty, Center, and 

 Union, of Union County, have been only partially investigated. Several 

 tumuli are said to exist within these townships, but the exact location 

 is not known. Just east of Brookville is a verj' high hill, whose head- 

 land juts out to the river, and from the apex of this hill, one looking 

 south has a grand view of the White Water below the junction of the 

 two rivers, and of a few of its tributaries, for several miles. To the west 

 and northwest, up the beautiful valley of the West Fork, the eye be- 

 comes ti^ed with the picturesque landscape of the whole valley, whose 

 second and third terraces are dotted o'er with ancient earthworks, both 

 single and in groups. Again, looking north, up the East Fork, we be- 

 hold another enchanting scene, whose lofty hills hug close the clear 

 waters from either side as it winds its way through the fertile valley 

 and along its course. * 



The writer has spent many pleasant hours investigating the last rest- 

 ing places and other structures of a people who once spent their time 

 here in fishing and hunting, and in the cultivation of the cereals upon 

 which they partly subsisted. 



Mound I^To. 2 is in Sec. 5., T. 9 IST., E. 2 W., near the southwest corner 

 of the southwest quarter section, almost directly opposite the bridge 

 that spans the river at the base of the hill, on the west side of the river, 

 and between two ravines, one on the north and the other on the south 

 side of the hill. This is known as the Templeton's Fortified Mound, 

 an account of which was given by Edgar Quick in the Smithsonian Ee- 

 port for 1879, and by Dr. Eufus Hay man in the Geological Eeport of 

 Franklin County, Indiana, of 1869. The Doctor's report is, to some ex- 

 tent, incorrect, so far as the description of the work is concerned. This 

 mound is on the top of a very high hill, not less than 375 or 400 feet high. 

 It is built on a plateau, back from the apex of the hill at least 500 yards, 

 and partly surrounded by a semi-circular wall on the east side and a ditch 

 on the west. The semi circle extends across the plateau from the ravine 

 on the north side to the ravine on the south side. This semi-circular wall 

 is very distinct, measuring, in some places, 3 feet in height. The ditch 

 on the inside of the wall was formed by the removal of the dirt to con- 

 struct the wall. It measures, in some places,'from 2 to 2^ feet in depth. 

 If there was a wall of any description on the west side it has been ob- 

 literated. About 250 yards on the west side is a very wide ditch, from 

 9 to 10 feet, symmetrical from one end to the other, and about 3 to 4 feet 



* Mr. C. C. Royce, ou his map showing the cessions of land by Indian tribes to the 

 United States, in the annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology for 1879-1880, lays 

 down the junction of the East and West Forks just south of Connersville, and about 

 midway of the lines of the old boundary line and the 12- miles iiurchase. This is a 

 mistake. The two forks uuite within the territory known as the Wayne purchase. 



