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The second day, Saturday, was the more important in 

 the sense of having the longest excursion. The members 

 started early on the electric cars and stopped about two miles 

 from Granville to look at what is called the ' ' Alligator 

 Mound", an ancient earthwork with the form of some animal 

 which, considering the tail of the effig}' and the distance from 

 alligator countries, should be called the "Opossum Mound." 

 Regaining the car they went on to the New Encampment 

 Grounds where several large circular banks have long been 

 known. This has lately been "touched up" with ques- 

 tionable taste. They are certainly more distinct if less an- 

 tique, but in their present fresh and bare state they offer 

 smaller attraction to the archaeologist. Making no long .stay 

 here, the party passed on to Newark when the great circle in 

 the Fair Ground was visited and the mound in its middle 

 supposed to represent an eagle was examined. The identi- 

 fications of the animals in these effigy mounds is a matter of 

 considerable difficult}' and, except in few cases very uncer- 

 tain. The original faults of construction, aggravated by the 

 work of time, have con.spired to effectually prevent any 

 breach of the second commandment in the decalogue. 



After dinner a train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway 

 carried the part}', except a few who were obliged to leave for 

 home, to Claylick and dropped them by .special agreement at 

 the head of the Licking narrows down which the}' wandered, 

 exploring under the able guidance of Prof. Tight, the gorges 

 which the river has cut at different eras in its history. The 

 whole intricate excavation has been made by Prof. Tight the 

 subject of an interesting paper on the preglacial, glacial and 

 post gracial drainage of the region. It is a most singular suc- 

 cession of gorges whose formation in any other way than as 

 explained by Professor Tight is not ea.sy to make out. The 

 occasion was pleasant and profitable alike to geologists, bot- 

 anists and entomologists. Returning to Newark the party 

 broke up to meet one year later (July 2 and 3) at Sandusky. 



In this region are many attractions for geologists, botan- 

 ists, zoologists and all lovers of nature. 



