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east of a small creek called Monday Branch, on Mr. Phil. Snider's farm. 

 The hill or headland on which this mound is built projects out to this 

 small stream called Monday Branch. The tumulus is 8 feet high, with 

 abase diameter of 60 feet, and composed of compact clay, coal, and ashes. 

 Five distinct strata were encountered, varying from 7 to 20 inches in 

 thickness. Ko bones of any description were found, nor ornaments or 

 fragments of pottery, in fact nothing that would go to show that it had 

 been used for burial purposes. It was simply a signal mound. Taking 

 the location and surroundings into consideration a better site could not 

 be found on the East Fork of White Water Eiver, one that commands as 

 large a scope of country as this, of both uplands and valley. To the 

 east, west, north, and south, the hill towers above a majority of the sur- 

 rounding forest, with nothing to obstruct the grand view that is presented 

 to the eye from ail points of the compass. One hundred and fifty yards 

 northeast of the mound is an excellent spring of never-failing water. 

 From this mound can be distinguished mounds 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 

 27, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50,53, 76, stone 

 grave 55, workshops 57, 59, 60, 62. 



i^umber 17 is in Sec. 13, T. 12 N., E. 13 B., 20 rods from the boundary 

 line, midway between the north and south section lines, and on the south 

 side of a small branch that empties into Monday Branch, second terrace 

 formation, on Mr. Jacob Master's farm. This mound is oblong, 75 feet 

 long, 5 feet high, and 35 feet in diameter at the center. It is simply a 

 heap of fine compact clay ; no ashes or charcoal were discovered in trench- 

 ing it both ways longitudinally and diagonally. It could not have been 

 used as a signal mound, for it is in the hollow of a small ravine, and 

 only to be seen from No. 16. 



Number 18 is in Sec. 31, T. 10 N., E. 2 W., midway of the north part 

 of the section, 10 rods from north section line, and near the township 

 line that divides Fairfield and Blooming Grove, on the former boundary 

 line that divided the Territory of Ohio and Indiana. ('' This line was 

 established at Greenville, Ohio, treaty in 1795,") and it is also in that 

 territory known as the " Twelve-mile purchase." The mound is on the 

 farm of Mr. Jacob Master, sr., and has been under annual cultivation 

 for the past forty years. Mr. A. Buckley, who settled this farm, informed 

 the writer that when he cleared the timber from the field in which the 

 mound is located, it was then 9 feet high, and surrounded by an embank- 

 ment, with a deep ditch, evidently from which the material was taken 

 to build the mound and embankment. At the present date the ditch is 

 obliterated, and but a faint ridge marks the outline of the embankments. 

 The remaining part of the mound is 2 feet high, with a base diameter of 

 45 feet. From this field a great many fine arrows, axes, celts, pestles, &c., 

 have been picked up. In trenching the remaining portion only burnt 

 clay, ashes, and charcoal were encountered. No bones of any descrip- 

 tion, ornaments, or fragments of pottery were seen. So far back as the 

 time that this field was brought under cultivation, Mr. Herrall has no 



