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villeand Delhi; and on the Great Miami at the mouth 

 of the river at Cleves, and for miles along its banks 

 about Colerain. 



This race must have differed in character and mode 

 of gover-nment from the modern Indians. The con- 

 struction of their great earthworks required a species 

 and amount of labor that the Indians would not have 

 submitted to. And the method of the systems of works 

 in Ohio is quite as striking as the character of any sin- 

 gle work. 



Along the Miami rivers are dotted small mounds 

 on projecting highlands, which seem to have been built 

 to carry intelligence by signals along the valleys. And 

 by the mound at Norwood, signals could be passed from 

 the valley of Millcreek to the Little Miami Valley, near 

 Newtown, and, I believe, to the valley of the Great 

 Miami, near Hamilton. A chain of mounds can be par- 

 tially traced from the old Cincinnati mound to the fort 

 at the mouth of the Great Miami ; and Judge Cox, who 

 is better acquainted than any one else with the works in 

 this country, says the chain is complete. Squireand Davis 

 says there is a series of signal mounds along the Scioto, 

 across Ross county, extending down into Pike and Pick- 

 away. Mr. Sullivant, of Columbus, told me that he 

 once traced a series of signal mounds along the Scioto, 

 from Dublin, entirely across Franklin county, to Picka- 

 way ; and added he had no doubt, though he had not 

 verified it by his own observations, that the chain was 

 so continuous that a signal could be instantaneously 

 flashed from the lines of Delaware county to Ports- 

 mouth. The controlled labor required to build the sep- 

 arate works, and their systematic combination, seem to 



