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another explanation. For two or three miles above its mouth. Moot's 

 Creek flows in a valley ronshly parallel with that of the Tippecanoe. At 

 many places the creek valley widens into creseentie hollows which are 

 separated from each other by sharp-pointed, narrow ridges. The floors of 

 these semi-circular areas are about twenty feet higher than the present 

 flood-plain. One of these areas Is marked C. Doubtless the gap B was one 

 of the widened portions of the valley, and only a very narrow strip of 



