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another explanation. For two or three miles above its mouth. Moot's 

 Creelv flows in a valley roughly parallel with that of the Tippecanoe. At 

 many places the creek valley widens into crescentic hollows which are 

 separated from each other l>y sharp-pointed, narrow ridges. The floors of 

 these semi-circular areas are aljout twenty feet higher than the present 

 flood-plain. One of these areas is marked C. Doubtless the gap B was one 

 of the widened portions of the valley, and only a very narrow strip of 



