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deep. In it and on its banks are growing some very large trees. Sur- 

 rounding tlie liill are five terraces, commencing some distance up the 

 ravine on the side of the hill facing the north, thence passing around 

 the hill facing the south, extending some distance up the ravine on the 

 south side of the hill. These terraces vary in width from 20 to 40 feet, 

 and from one to another as you ascend the hill the distance is 50 to 75 

 feet. The length of those terraces also varies from GOO to 800 yards. 

 The outlines and formation are defaced but little, only a few gullies 

 having cut their way through them to mar their symmetry. The whole 

 hill is covered by a very heavy forest, and trees are growing upon the 

 terraces and hillside that will measure from 4 to 4^ feet in diameter; in 

 fact, this hill in outline is similar to the Glidwell Fortified Mound, with 

 the same number of graded ways or terraces. The construction of these 

 graded ways, with semi-circular walls and ditch, is conclusive evidence 

 that this hill, at one time, was an ancient fortification. The original 

 height of this mound, by measurement of the several strata, is 10 feet^ 

 and the diameter at base 40 feet. It is composed of brick clay, ashes, 

 and charcoal. The mound has been badly mutilated by curiosity seek- 

 ers; skeletons have been thrown out promiscuously and broken, which 

 no doubt with a little care could have been removed intact. Mr. 

 James Eucker, who took great interest in the study of archaeology, in- 

 formed the writer, in regard to the positions in which the subjects were 

 laid in this mound, that thej^ were placed promiscuously throughout that 

 portion of the mound which has been mutilated, and all within the clay 

 forming the base stratum. He himself removed several, but not know- 

 ing how to treat them properly, they were broken into fragments in his 

 efforts to preserve them, and, deeming them of no value, he threw them 

 out with the dirt among the rubbish. 



A portion of the mound still remains undisturbed. This will afford an 

 opportunity perhaps to secure a portion of the remaining objects which 

 have been entombed therein. From this mound there is a good view of 

 the uplands between the two forks of the White Water, also mounds 1, 

 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12 can be seen. 



Number 3 is on the same side of the river, about one-half mile norths 

 and located in Sec. 4, T. 9 N., R. 2 W., midway of the west part of the 

 northwest quarter section 4, on Mr. George Templeton's farm. This 

 mound is a little more than half way up the hill, in the center of a de- 

 pression about the shape of a horseshoe. Above, below, and on each 

 side of the depression it has about the same angle of descent as that of 

 other parts of the hill. This is the only mound the writer has ever seen 

 built midway of a hill. 



Number 4 is in the northeast corner of the southeast quarter Sec. 9, 

 T. 9 N., R. 2 W., on Mr. Jeff. Logan's farm, on the second terrace forma- 

 tion. Originally it was about C feet high, with a base diameter of 50 

 feet; but it has been under annual caltivation for about forty years, 

 which has almost obliterated it. A few more years will level it with 



