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across and 3 feet high. The country is level, covered with trees, and 

 exhibits no geological change. 



Another is in a woods-pasture on the farm of Reuben Farlow, 3 A miles 

 southwest of Milroy. It is 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high ; not 

 explored. 



A third one on the farm of Finley Carter, 3 miles west of Milroy, in 

 a woods £ mile south of his house. It is 25 feet across, 5 feet high ; not 

 opened. 



A fourth on the farm of John Overleese, Sr., lA miles south of Milroy, 

 on the Greensburg road, 50 yards north of a grave-yard on the same farm. 

 It is in a cultivated held and nearly plowed down. Several arrow points 

 and stone hatchets have been found near it; not opened. 



Several others are scattered over the country, but they are so nearly 

 alike that I will not take the time and space to describe them. 



The first one of these curious remains which I opened was on Reuben 

 Farlow's farm, 3i miles southwest of Milroy, on a bluff 20 feet high, at 

 the foot of which flows the stream Little Flat Rock. It was about 30 feet 

 in diameter, and 5 feet high; round. Inside of it was what might be 

 termed a stone wall inclosing 10 feet square of the mound. Though the 

 wall was not of perfect masonry, yet very evidently it was built for some 

 purpose, and was not a mere accidental arrangement of stones, of which 

 there were a goodly number scattered through the mound. On top was 

 common soil 18 inches deep, then clay, next clay and ashes, with coal 

 mixed in it 2 feet thick; then a "hard pan" of clay, on top of which 

 were three human adult skeletons and the skull of an infant, all side by 

 side, with their feet toward the east. Around the neck of one were a 

 number of copper and bone beads, the latter of which crumbled im- 

 mediately. The copper ones were made of sheet copper rolled up, with a 

 hole left through the center by which to string them. The land around 

 was level, and there was no trace left to show where they procured the 

 earth. A maple tree 15 inches in diameter grew on the side of it. 



No. 2 was on the farm of Frank Power, 1 mile west of Milroy. It was 

 situated on a small rise about 150 yards from a small stream. It was 

 of precisely the same structure as No. 1, with the exception of the rock 

 wall. Nothing was found in it, save a stone maul or hammer and 

 some arrow points. On the "hard pan" 1 found, all in one place, nine 

 flint arrow points, no two of the same color, and a plate of mica which 

 I call a "looking glass." It is of an oval shape, 10 inches in long 

 diameter, and 7 inches in short diameter, and J inch in thickness. Also 

 two slate specimens were found 4£ inches by 2 inches by | inch. About 

 feet east of them was a copper needle or awl inches long and J inch 

 thick, three-cornered at one end. Four feet north of first batch was a 

 stone hammer — merely a bowlder shaped up to fasten a handle on. No 

 bones found. 



No. 3, on the farm of James Brown, 1 mile west of Milroy, of about 

 the same size and structure as No. 2, surrounded with trees 2 feet in 



