36 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



surprised that no author had noticed this exhibition of wisdom, 

 in the formation of mountains and rivers. 



We will not say, that formerly, catastrophes of the globe 

 have been effected, by the running of rivers, which carried 

 along in their currents such a weight of matter, as, by that 

 means to change the centre of gravity in the earth, and pro- 

 duce any one of the awful catastrophes, which have several 

 times overwhelmed our world, with temporary ruin and desola- 

 tion. All we say, is, that by exactly such means, it might 

 have been effected, almost in a moment, and that all the effects 

 of such a revolution, are visible, all over the world. Every 

 portion of the earth, by such means, might have been, at some 

 day, a tropical region, and productive of tropical plants. 



Man and his works, have been found in many places, in the 

 Valley of the Mississippi, in a fossil state. According to in- 

 formation received eighteen or twenty years since, from the 

 Honorable Thomas Tod, then a Judge of the United States 

 Court, a human skeleton, buried in an ancient stone mound, 

 two hundred feet below the surface of a hill, was discovered 

 in Kentucky. The owner of the land, dug through the hill 

 at its base, for the purpose of uniting two small creeks, whose 

 united waters were sufficient to turn the machinery of a mill. 

 In perforating the earth, between the two creeks, an ancient 

 stone mound, consisting of many cart loads, was met with, 

 and on removing the stones, an entire human skeleton was 

 found at the mound's base. Judge Tod saw the place, the 

 stones and the human bones, but my memorandum of the con-, 

 versation with my learned and revered friend, does not state 

 the place, where the discovery was made. The death of the 

 Judge, prevented my visiting the spot in question. We re- 

 spectfully request his family, if they know where it is, to 

 inform us. To his worthy sons, Robert S. Tod and Charles S. 

 Tod, Esquires — we apply for an answer to this request. 



In a natural mound of earth, near the high road, some 

 fourth of a mile, north of Circleville, seven human skeletons, 

 were found, about eighteen years since. These skeletons, 

 lay among earth and pebbles, evidently brought there and left 



