596 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



I. — A small mound, 3 or 4 feet high and 15 feet in diameter, stands 

 upon a very high hill, perhaps the highest land in the county, and is 

 composed of stone and clay. It was excavated some years ago by Dr. 

 Emerick and a Mr. Long, who are said to have found a skeleton in a 

 kneeling or sitting posture, and a pipe, both near the center. The au- 

 thor was unable to learn what had become of the pipe. Messrs. H. B. 

 Care and J. Freshwater made another examination in 187G, but found 

 nothing. There is a large spring at the foot of the hill, on the east 

 side, but it is nearly half a mile from the spring to the mound on the 

 hill. 



J. — This work is said to be located on the west side of the creek. The 

 author has not visited the site. 



K. — In 1876 the author, in company with Mr. J. Freshwater, made a 

 slight examination of this mound. It is 25 or 30 feet high, oval in shape, 

 and over 100 feet long. The citizens regarded it as an artificial mound, 

 but we considered it a natural elevation of gravel drift. Excavations 

 might change this view. The mound is located on the west side of the 

 Lake Fork, and just north of the road and bridge leading from Mohicau 

 to McZeua in Lake Township. 



L. — A mound is situated on the lands of J. L. and Cyrus Quick, in 

 Washington Township, Holmes County, Ohio, It stands upon an emi- 

 nence which slopes gradually for half a mile southward toward the bot- 

 tom lands of the Lake Fork; northward and westward it declines a 

 short distince to a small valley extending to the southwest. It is about 

 5 or G feet high, and 30 feet in diameter. Some trees were growing upon 

 the mound when the author first visited it, some twenty-seven years 

 ago. The trees were, perhaps, not of more than one hundred years' 

 growth, but were as old as the trees in the immediate vicinity; not far 

 from it, however, were oak trees 2 and 3 feet in diameter. The mound 

 was excavated about 1820-'25 by Isaac and Thomas Quick, Daniel 

 Priest, and others. It is said that, upon making a central excavation, 

 they found a wooden puncheon cist, together with some human remains, 

 and ornaments of muscle shell, which a])peared to be strung around the 

 neck. All the remains are reported to have crumbled away on being 

 exposed to the air. It is ditticult to ascertain the facts concerning this 

 excavation. It has been said that some pottery was found also. Ad- 

 ditional remains might be disclosed by further investigation. The per- 

 sons who made the excavation are dead. 



M. — This mound, located a little southwest of mound L, on the lower 

 ground about half a mile from the same, was probably of an equal size 

 originall}', but, having been plowed for nearly fifty years, it is now 

 spread over quite a space. It is, however, still discernible from a dis- 

 tance, and shows the eleyation from the flat surface of the field. The 

 yellow clay presents a contrast with the darker soil of the surrounding 

 land. No excavation had been made until 1877, when the author, aided 

 by Mr. Freshwater, removed abor t 1 square feet from the center. We 



