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let. The mound is situated on a slight rise of ground, about 10 rods 

 south of the Scioto Eiver, in Lynn Township, Hardin County, and on 

 lands owned by Lester T. Hunt and General James S. Eobinson. It is 

 about 30 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, and was overgrown by large 

 forest trees of white ash, beech, and oak. The mound has not been fully 

 explored, but is believed to contain the remains of at least three per- 

 sons. A quantity of charred corn was found near the place where the 

 relics were taken out. 



Alexander G. Blade, Surgcon-GeneraVs Office, Washington, D. G. — Col- 

 lection from Eandolph County, Indiana : Flakes, scrapers, cutting-tools, 

 leaf-shaped implements, arrow- and spear-heads, polished celts, notched 

 and grooved axes, mauls, pestles, one ceremonial weapon, partly drilled, 

 and two pierced tablets. The character of this collection, which con- 

 sists of surface finds, is above the average, care having been taken to 

 preserve the specimens in the condition in which they were found. 



W. Emmet Gatewood, Stoclcport, Morgan Gounty, Ohio. — A large stone 

 mortar with funnel-shaped cavity, taken from the foundation wall of a 

 building at Stockport; originally from an Indian camp. 



Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tenn. — A cast of an image of 

 potstone, found in Bartow County, Georgia, and described by Col. 

 Charles C. Jones in his work entitled "Antiquities of the Southern 

 Indians," p. 432, &c; a cast of a stone image representing a woman, 

 locality where found not yet known ; a cast of a smoothing tool with 

 handle. The original made of clay, was dug up in North Nashville, in 

 1866, by James Wyatt, superintendent of water- works. The originals 

 were loaned, with other relics, by the above-named society, and the 

 casts made in the -National Museum. 



Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; through Prof. F. W. Putnam. — 

 A cast of a fish carved from slate; original found near Ipswich, Mass. 



F. G. Galbraith, Bainbridge, Lancaster Gounty, Pennsylvania. — Collec- 

 tion of relics found on the surface near Bainbridge : Flakes of porphyry, 

 jasper, quartzite, and slate, trimmed flakes, rude and leaf-shaped imple- 

 ments, arrow and spear-heads, chipped celts with ground cutting 

 edges, a chisel (small), grooved axes, large unfinished maul, a grinding- 

 stone, notched sinkers, fragments potstone, clay vessels and sherds, 

 and a paint-stone. Collection from Bed Hill Cave, near Bainbridge : 

 Fragments of animal bones and teeth, a rude stone implement, arrow 

 and spear-heads, fragments of pottery, and a shell ornament. Collec- 

 tion from Haldeman's shell-heap, 2 miles south of Bainbridge : Jaws, 

 bones, and teeth of animals, fragments of a human skull, fragments of 

 quartz and other stone, fragments of pottery and of shells. Collection 

 from Northumberland, Lancaster, Perry, and York Counties: 28 grooved 

 axes, 6 polished celts, a cutter (chipped), a pestle, a mortar, a moccasin- 

 last, a cup-stone with cavities on both sides, 3 unfinished ceremonial 

 weapons, 4 small stone sculptures, a stone ball, and a hematite paint- 

 stone. A number of the axes show the oblique groove often character- 



