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mation on Mr. Charles Snider's farm, about 50 yards from the apex of a 

 *very prominent hill which is on the south side of Elie's Creek, and back 

 from the river on its west side about 80 rods from the mouth of Elie's 

 Creek. The highest is 4^ feet, and the base diameter, 35 feet. From 

 the field in wiiich this mound is located, and the one due west, many 

 finely made perforators, arrow-points, spear-points, celts, &c., have 

 been picked up from time to time. Mr. Milton Trusler and Mr. Elmer 

 Sheppard have in their cabinets some very beautiful specimens from 

 this locality. In the trenching no bones or ornaments of any descrip- 

 tion were recovered, but, as usual, the tumulus proved to be a stratified 

 mound, Avhich also may be classified as a signal mound. Erom this and 

 only this one can be seen mounds 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. 



Xumber 29 is in Sec. 5, T. 10 X., R. 2 W., in the southeast quarter of 

 the section, about the same distance from the east and north section 

 lines. It stands on the south side of Elie's Creek and the west side of 

 the river, about 50 yards from the creek and river, on the second terrace 

 formation, on Mr. Chas. Snider's farm. The height is 3^ feet, the di- 

 ameter 22 feet. It is comj)osed of sand overlaid with a thin stratum of 

 brick clay. Mr. Snider, in cultivating over this tuumulus has at several 

 times i)lowed up human bones, but they would crumble as quick as 

 ex])osed to the atmosphere. In trenching, the writer met with the same 

 trouble of crumbling to dust on exposure. So far as learned, no relics 

 have been found in this mound by any one. Several have dug into it, 

 thus marring the symmetry, and in the course of five or six years there 

 will be nothing lelt to mark its location, which is the case with a great 

 many of these ancient monuments along this valley. 



Number 30 is in Sec. 24, in the southwest corner of the northeast 

 quarter section, T. 13 N., li. 13 E,, on Dr. A. C. Fosdick's farm, and on 

 tlie east side of a small creekthat empties into Elie's Creek. It occu- 

 pies the highest terrace formation of Elie's Creek. The height is 8 feet 

 and the diameter at the base, 28 feet. This mound has a pit sunk in 

 the center about 5 feet square, concerning which nothing is known. The 

 mound is composed of compact clay stratified. 



i!^umber 31 is in Sec. 14, T. 13 X., E. 13 E., Fayette County, in the 

 southwest corner of the northeast quarter section, on Mr. John Dun- 

 gan's farm. It stands on the north side of the same creek as No. 30, 

 northwest of Mr. Dungan's residence about 150 yards. This mound is 

 7J feet high and 46 feet in base diameter. It has been partly" explored 

 by some one who commenced a trench on the west side 5 feet wide, and 

 dug to the center of the mound. Th« sides of this trench reveal the 

 composition throughout. The mound stratified and composed of brick 

 clay. From the field in which this mound is located several species of 

 aboriginal handiwork have been picked up. 



Number 32 is in Sec. 14, T. 13 N., E. 13 E., in the northwest corner 

 of the northeast quarter, about 20 yards i'rom the north section line and 

 75 yards from the west quarter-section line. It stands in the center of 

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