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130 feet in diameter from the crest of the embankment on one side to that 

 on the other. The mound is situated in western part of the enclosure, 

 fifty feet west of the eastern side. There is a gate, or opening in the east- 

 ern wall. The mound is at least six feet high above the general level of 

 country, and was about nine feet above bottom of the ditches when I first 

 saw it. The old red oak has blown down, but the stump is still lying on 

 the mound. At the ground it is about five feet through, and, as near as I 

 could calculate from the annual rings of growth, it was at least 280 years 

 old. There is, also, a small mound on the S. N. W. quarter Sec. IS, T. 16, 

 R. 12, owned by J. V. Huffman and now occupied as a cemetery. It is 

 about seventy feet in diameter and was formerly eight to ten feet high, and 

 is now about six feet in height. It was dug into a number of years ago and 

 ashes, coals and burned stones were found. Neai* by, about 150 feet to the 

 Northwest is a pit from which the earth was probably taken to build the 

 mound. 



Daniel Harvey informs me that there are three small mounds on N. W. 

 N. W. quarter Sec. o6, T. IS, R. 10, now owned by Thomas Graham, ar- 

 ranged in a crescent shape. The large mound occupies the center and two 

 small mounds the ends. The center mound was dug into about thirty years 

 ago by Mr. Harvey and others, but found no skeletons nor remains. The 

 central mound is about ten feet high and sixty feet in diameter, and the 

 outside mounds are about thirty feet in diameter and four or five feet 

 high, so Daniel Harvey tells me. H. B Hernly informs me that there is a 

 large mound on W. N. W. quarter Sec. 25, T. 18, R. 10, owned by him. It 

 has not been explored and may or may not be artificial. I have had no 

 opportunity to examine it. There is a mound five or six feet high and 

 twenty five to forty feet in diameter on the N. E. N. E. quarter Sec. 27, T. 

 18, R. 10, now owned by Benj. Wilhoit. It has been dug into and shells, 

 etc., found. 



The graves of a departed race are found in a great many of the gravel 

 banks of the country, I have the skulls and some of the other bones, and 

 a lot of beads, pendants, gorgets, and other articles, taken from some of 

 these graves upon John Hosea's farm, formerly owned by my father, 

 near this city. These pendants, gorgets and beads are mostly made from 

 the shell of a kind of Conch, called Busycon perrersum, found along the 

 Atlantic coast from Massachusetts south to the Gulf of Mexico. Some are 

 from other kinds of shells found along the same coast. Whether these are 

 the remains of the Mound-builders, or of a later race, is unknown. They 



