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yond this current report no. certainty attached^ to them until De- 

 cember 5, 1S78. On that day Mr. C. P. Oridley called upon Dr. 

 H. H. Hill, of Cincinnati, a member of and an officer of the Cin- 

 cinnati Society of Natural History. Mr. Gridle'y's object was to 

 obtain possession again of the mound builder relics above men- 

 tioned, which he had loaned the Western Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, and which, as said, had passed into the possession of 

 the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. It seems that Mr. Grid- 

 ley had removed to the city of Springfield some twenty-five years 

 previously, where he had since lived, and where he now, at this 

 present writing, resides. Mr. Gridley made a statement to Dr. 

 Hill as follows : 



"Cincinnati, Decembers, 1878. 

 "Mr. C. P. Gridley, of Springfield, O., this day called on 

 me and stated that he was for many years a resident of Cincinnati, 

 but moved to Springfield 25 years ago. While living here, and 

 during the time the mound known as the Sixth and Mound Street 

 Mound was being cut down, he frecjuently dug in it to see what he 

 could find. After it was cut through, exposing the bed of ashes, 

 charcoal,* etc., (described by others) in the bottom of the mound, 

 he dug into the bank immediately over the center of the ash bed, 3 

 or 4 feet above the level of the surrounding earth, and found some 

 flint arrow and spear heads, two stone chisels, one slate ornament 

 with a hole through it, several fragments of flat stone which he 

 thought had been ornaments, and one flat stone with beveled straight 

 edge, while the other was of an ovate form, wide at one end and run- 

 ning to a point at the other; length perhaps 10 inches; material 

 fine grit stone —might be sand stone. 'At the request of Mr. S. T. 

 Carley I deposited the above described relics in the collection of 

 the Western Academy of Sciences, with the understanding that I 

 could have them at anytime he (I) wished to take them away.' He 

 now wished to do so. After explaining to him how they were 

 turned over to the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, and the 

 difficulty of getting the matter satisfactorily before the parties con- 

 cerned in the matter, he seemed to think it rather useless to attempt 

 to get them. This interview was very satisfactory to me, as it set- 

 tled in my mind the origin of the specimens, or, in other words, 

 the fact that they were taken out of the mound known as the Cin- 

 cinnati or Sixth and Mound Street Mound." 



(Signed) "H. H. Hill." 



