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worked. Several excavations were found 15 to 20 feet across and 10 to 

 12 feet deep. Deposit about 1 foot thick ; land around strewn with frag- 

 ments. 



MacLeAn, J. P. — Author of a work ou the antiquity of man, and a 

 scries of articles on the Star in the West. Is preparing a full account of 

 the earthworks, &c, in Butler County. 



Metz, C. L. — At the junction of the two branches of the Duck Creek, 

 near Red Bank Station, in the vicinity of Madisonville, a kind of oven 

 was uncovered; that is, two parallel lines of stone set on edge and cov- 

 ered over with large, flat limestones, all showing effect of Are. In sec- 

 tion 11, Columbia Township, west of the railroad, is a precipitous range 

 of hills, along the face of which is an ancient roadway extending from 

 the creek to the top of the range, GOO yards long, 4 to 10 feet wide. Has 

 in preparation a chart of Anderson Township, where mounds and works 

 abound. 



Miller, R. — Describes mound three-quarters of a mile north of West 

 Farmingtou, Trumbull County ; 100 feet base diameter, 20 feet high, on 

 a ridge 80 feet above surrounding country. 



Morrow, Josiah. — There is another ancient work (beside Fort An- 

 cient) in Warren County, on the west bank of Little Miami Fiver, con- 

 taining 15 or 20 acres, of which no description has ever been published. 

 It is situated at Foster's Crossings, in Warren County. The most re- 

 markable feature is the fact that the walls were constructed of baked 

 earth. Wherever excavations have been made, or trees uprooted, the 

 clay is very red and bears evidences of fire. This occurrence of burnt 

 clay is confined to the inclosing bank. The work is on the top of the 

 river hill. 



Pease, A. P. L. — Gives minute description of stone implements from 

 near Hamilton. 



Pocock, B. D.— There are several mounds near Shrove, Wayne 

 County, which will be mapped and described for the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



Randolph, T. C. — No mounds or earthworks occur in Columbiana 

 County, but stone implements abound. 



Read, M. C. — Describes rock shelters, three miles west of Hudson Vil- 

 lage, Summit County. Accumulation of 1 to 5 feet of ashes mixed with 

 burnt soil, fragments of bone, stone implements, &c. The bones repre- 

 sent nearly all the native mammalia. The shaft bones and larger jaw- 

 bones were all broken. The pottery is of two kinds, one thin, the other 

 very thick, and all mixed with powdered quartz. The stone implements, 

 drawings of which accompany the letters, were mostly rude. Mr. Read 

 will prepare a monograph upon these shelters. The author also men 

 tions a cache of 200 black chert disks found on the land of Mr. M.Graham, 

 in Summit County, and draws attention to a "speculation published by 

 him in the American Antiquarian, to the effect that these enigmatical 



