734 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



recollection of ever plowing up so much as a fragment of a human skele- 

 ton, nor has the present owner ever observed anjthingof the kind ; there- 

 fore this mound also must have been constructed for a signal station. 



Number 19 is in Sec. 29, T. 10 K., R. 2 W., in the southwest corner of 

 the southwest quarter, on the highest terrace formatiom, and on Mr. 

 Wilson Jones's farm. This mound, like ISTo. 18, has been under cultiva- 

 tion for a great many years, which has diminished its size considerably, 

 so that at the present time it only measures 4 feet in height, and as to 

 the diameter of these cultivated mounds it is impossible to obtain any- 

 thing accurate. In trenching no signs of fire occurred. It is simply a 

 heap of compact clay. 



Number 20 is in Sec. 29, T. 10 N., R. 2 W., about in the center of the north- 

 east quarter. It occupies the highest terrace formation on Mr. Jno. 

 Kelley's farm, south of the Blooming Grove and Fairfield road, due east 

 from Mr. Kelley's house about 30 rods, and very near the line of his 

 and Mrs. George Miller's farm, just at the apex of the hill that juts up 

 to the ravine running along the base of the hill on the north side. This 

 mound, says Mr. Kelley, was originally 8 feet high, with a base diame- 

 ter of 50 feet, but with the plow and scraper he leveled it down, so 

 that he could cultivate over it, which he has continued to do for the 

 past twenty years. At the present date it measures 2 feet and 3 inches 

 in height. The portion levelled down was similar in the strata to the 

 remaining portion of the mound. Around this was a ditch and circu- 

 lar wall or embankment, the wall originally was 2 feet high, wdth the 

 ditch upon the inside. But in leveling it the ditch was filled and the 

 •circular embankment destroyed in several places. This circular wall 

 measured 225 feet. In the process of leveling was found a fine copper 

 gorget, which was used to mend a broken shovel-handle. The shovel 

 was purchased and the article removed in a mutilated condition. In 

 trenching the remaining portion of the mound the writer found one fine 

 leaf-shaped spear-point in the debris of ashes and charcoal, being some- 

 what burnt. From this mound can be distinguished mounds 31, 36, 37, 

 ^8, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 4(3, 47, 48, 49, 50, 12, 19, 25, in the autumn when the 

 forest is divested of its foliage. No doubt, at one time, judging from 

 the several locations of these mounds, no forest intervened between 

 them. 



Number 21 is in Sec. 9, T. 12 N., R. 13 E., in the southeast corner of 

 the southwest quarter of the section, second terrace formation of Duck 

 Creek, and on Mrs. Wilson's farm. The height is 6 feet, base diameter, 

 36 feet, and the composition, compact clay. 



Number 22 is in Sec. 4, T. 12 N,, R. 13 E., in the southeast quarter of 

 the section, 00 rods from the north line and 40 from the east line. It 

 is located on Mr. J. Hay's farm, and on the west side of the Blooming 

 Grove and Connersville pike, south side of Duck Creek, near where the 

 pike bridge spans the creek. This is also in the second terrace for- 

 mation of the creek. Its height is 8 feet, base diameter, 48 feet, and 

 composition, brick clay. 



