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high and fifty in diameter, on the top of which formerly grew a large beech 

 tree. It is supposed, by some, to be artificial, but others think it natural. 

 I have not examined it. It is in the N. E quarter Sec. 31, T. 16, R. 12. 

 There is a small mound, now almost obliterated, on the N. W. S. E. quar- 

 ter Sec. 14, T. 1(5, R. 9, owned by Daniel Jackson. Was probably twenty- 

 five feet in diameter and four feet high. Was dug into and ashes and 

 coals found. About a mile southwest of the above, on the S. W. quarter 

 Sec. 3, T. 1(5, R. 9, owned by John Small, is another small mound of about 

 the same size of the one just described. 



On Charles McDormain's farm near the S, E. cor. of Sec. 20, T. 17, R. 

 10, is a mound about fifty feet in diameter and three feet high. It has been 

 under cultivation for more than fifty years, and was, originally, probably 

 over six feet high. It has been dug into. Flints, ashes and coals were 

 found. On the Hoover place, west of the barn, in the N. E. quarter Sec. 

 5, T. 16, R. 10, is a small mound, now about fifty feet in diameter aad two 

 feet high. It has been plowed over fifty years or more. There is a small 

 mound on the farm of Jonathan K. Bond, on the N. W. S. W., quarter Sec. 

 24, T. 17, R. 9, probably forty feet in diameter and four feet high. This, 

 and the one on McDoroaan's farm, and the large circular enclosure on the 

 west part of Iludleson's farm and a small mound on Benj. Wilhoit's farm 

 are the only artificial earthworks of which I have any information, which 

 are located on the west side of Bhie River, in this county. There is a 

 small mound on S. E. N. E. quarter Sec. 2S, T. 16, R. 10, in Spiceland town- 

 ship, on the farm owned by Hinshaw's heirs. It is represented as about 

 fifty feet across and three or four high. It was dug into, a few years ago, 

 and ashes and coals found. 



One of the largest and best preserved mounds is found on N. E. S. E. quar- 

 ter Sec. 26, T. 17, R. 10, owned by John R. Peed, about two and a half miles 

 southeast of New Castle. Until recently it was in a forest, but has been 

 cleared, and, the embankments plowed down and the ditches partly filled. It 

 is sixty-five feet in diameter, and at least six feet high. The ditches were 

 formerly about three feet deep. I first saw this mound when I was a small 

 boy, it being near the farm on which I was brought up, and was often visi- 

 ted by me. When I first saw it, there was growing on its top a large red oak 

 three feet in diameter. The mound has been dug into several times. 

 Ashes, coals, bones and fragments of pottery were found, but they have 

 been scattered and carried ofi", and I cannot find any of them to examine. 

 I have recently visited the mound. It is surrounded by an enclosure 



