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most westerly. (The distance is from center to center of round mounds, 

 and from end to end of long mounds.) 



From 1 to 2 is 39 feet from center to center; from 2 to 3 is 30 feet 

 from center to center; from 3 to 4 is 50 feet from center to center. 



This mound, 80 feet long, with a cross at the end of 33 feet in length, 

 is 2 feet high. The cross is 10 feet wide. The main or principal mound 

 is 15 feet wide. From No. 4 to No. 5 is 123 feet. No. 5 is a common 

 round mound 3 feet high, with a base diameter of 40 feet. From No. 5 

 to No. 6 is 53 feet. No. 6 is 98 feet long, 2 feet high, 18 feet wide, with 

 the greatest length from southwest to northeast. From No. 6 to No. 7 

 is 75 feet, w T est-northwest of No. 6. No. 7, is 104 feet long, 2£ feet high, 

 and 18 feet wide, with the greatest length from southwest to northeast. 

 From No. 7 to No. 8 is 100 feet. No. 8 is 140 feet long, 3 feet high, and 

 20 feet wide. Fifty feet from the south end of this mound is a black- 

 oak tree 3 feet in diameter, and standing in the middle of the mound. 

 This mound is 100 feet west of the bluff of Spoon Eiver. The bluff is 

 40 feet in height at this place and very precipitous. 



In company with Mr. W. J. Morris, I made a crosscut in this mound 

 to the original soil. At every spadeful we would bring up flint chips, 

 and we found several pieces of trap-rock, some of them polished on one 

 side. In accordance with the usual rule here, of computing sixteen 

 growths to the inch, I measured on one side of the center of the tree. 

 (This is the rule here for black oak.) Around the mound when the 

 leaves are off are great quantities of flint chips. 



We made a slight examination of Nos. 6 and 7, and found nothing 

 excepting traces of ashes and charcoal. On opening No. 3, at a depth of 



2 feet I found ashes, at 2h feet, 6 to 8 inches of charcoal and ashes, at 



3 feet hard-packed earth. At 3 feet 3 inches 1 found two skeletons 

 with all the bones very much decayed excepting the teetb, and these 

 were not worn by the owner for probably thirty years. I opened 2 and 

 1 and found nothing. All the mounds have the appearance of having 

 been built at the same time and by the same people. Spoon Eiver at 

 this point is 100 feet wide. I found no depressions from whence the 

 material of which these mounds are built was taken. 



ANCIENT RELICS AT DAYTON, OHIO. 



By Aug. A. Foerste, of Dayton Ohio. 



The country west of Dayton is subject to inundation on the part of 

 the Miami Eiver during the spring freshets. The city recently con- 

 structed levees to protect the land within its corporation, which includes 

 some corn-fields extending for a mile along the west bank of the river. 

 For this entire distance, the construction of the levee necessitated the 



