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but it is very suggestive of one, and is about one hundred and sixty feet 

 in diameter. 



There are three or four other little hillocks in the neighborhood of these 

 enclosures that look much like small mounds. On the west side of the pike, 

 about sixty or seventy rods "west of the large mound, is a gravel bank in 

 which a number of human skeletons have been found. There was found 

 in this bank, recently, the skeleton of a dog, about six feet below the sur- 

 face. Skeletons have been found both in a horizontal and in an erect pos- 

 ture. In it are also found pieces of charcoal ; also shafts of earth and clay. 

 These are round and from five to eight feet deep and two or three feet in 

 diameter, as if a grave had been dug and then filled with earth. It is prob- 

 able that there was a mound on this bank, but it has been so long worked 

 and so much of it removed that it cannot be verified. It was at least a 

 burial ground. The skeletons mostly crumble on being exposed. 



Across the river, about a mile to the west, on the N half of Sec. 3, T. 17, 

 li. 10, belonging, also, to Mr. Hudleson, is another large circular enclosure 

 in cultivated ground. It is probably 150 feet in diameter, and before the 

 land was cleared was enclosed by embankments five to six feet high, — but 

 a long period of cultivation has nearly obliterated the embankments. I do 

 not know whether it enclosed a mound or not, but probably did. There 

 was, until recently, a mound on S. W, S. E. quarter Sec. 1, T. 17, R. 10, 

 owned by Joseph Smith, about thirty rods west of his house. It was about 

 fifty feet in diameter, and eight to ten feet high, before cultivation. During 

 the last year ^Ir. Smith plowed it down and used the earth to make an 

 embankment along the creek near by. He tells me that he came to a bed 

 of ashes and charcoal in the center of the mound, about six feet square but 

 did not examine to ascertain the depth . He did not notice any fragments 

 of bones or other articles. 



There is also a mound on the K. S. E. quarter Sec. 24, T. 16, R. 10, in 

 Franklin township, now owned by John Gilbert. It is small, probably 

 forty feet in diameter, and three or four feet high. There is another mound 

 in the same township on S. W. S. W. quarter Sec. 15, T. 16, R. 10, owned 

 by Charles Stubbs. It is about three feet high and fifty feet in diameter. 

 It has been dug into and ashes and coals found. Another mound, in this 

 township, is found on S. W. S. K. quarter Sec. 28, T. 16, R. 11, owned by D. 

 H. Fenstamaker, about thirty rods south of the Central railroad, about six 

 feet high and seventy-five across, before plowed down. There is a small 

 hillock, or mound, in the southeast corner of the county, about ten feet 



