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the Mound Builders into a cemetery that can be seen for a long dis- 

 tance. It was the burial-])laee of hundreds who are interred in the 

 stone cists, of which numbers have been examined. Axes, arrow-points, 

 &c., used to be found in abundance in the vicinity, but they are now 



about all picked up. In Barnhill Township, 5 miles east of us, is a 

 groui) of seven mounds, which have not been examined, but which 

 were probably dwelling-places. They are small, about 90 feet in circum- 



