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any presumption of its belonging to a later, or what we call intru- 

 sive, deposit. As described by Dr. Drake, this mound measured 

 440 feet in circumference. A reference for the history of the re- 

 moval of this mound, and for all that is to be gleaned as describ- 

 ing it, and the finding of the " Gest Tablet" is made to a pamph- 

 let entitled, "The Prehistoric Remains Which Were Found on the 

 Site ot the City of Cincinnati, O., with a Vindication of the Cin- 

 cinnati (Cest) Tablet," published by Roliert Clarke, Esq., in 1876. 

 The " Gest Tablet," which must always hereafter be associated 

 with the " Gridley Measure," was, as per the descriptions in Mr. 

 Clarke's valuable pamphlet, found at the center of the mound and 

 about 4 feet above its base, so that the places of deposit of the two 

 stones must have been very near the one to the other. 



Mr. Gridley, having referred to Mr. S. T. Carley, who was a 

 member of The Western Academy of Natural Sciences, and after- 

 ward a member of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, I 

 ascertained that Mr. Carley was a resident of Mount Holly, 

 Clermont County, Ohio, and wrote him touching these matters. I 

 received from him in reply the two notes following : 



"Mt. Holly, Feb. 4, 1883. 

 " Dear Sir : 



" Yours of January 31st received. I remember the cir- 

 cumstance of Mr. Gridley's de]:)Ositing, in the collection of the 

 Western Academy of N. S., a number of specimens of Indian 

 relics subject to his demand. They were all labeled with his 

 name. If the stone you allude to has his name attached to 

 it, it is undoubtedly one of the lot he deposited at that time" 

 (about thirty years ago). "At the time the Academy col- 

 lection was transferred to the Society of N. H., nothing had 

 been heard of Mr. Gridley for many years, so the sjiecimens 

 were thought of only as part of the collection. If Mr. Gridley 

 should claim them, I have no doubt but the Society of Natural 

 History will do what ls right and just in the case. If the 

 stone is of any special value, it will be worth more in a general 

 collection than it could be in the hands of any single individual. 



Respectfully, 



(Signed) S. T. Carley." 

 "Mt. Holly, Feb. 9, 1883. 



