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height of over three hundred feet, directly from the water at 

 ordinary level. On the Ohio side there is a flood-plain from fifty 

 to one hundred yards wide and from twenty -to thirty feet above 

 low water. Along the west side of this flood-plain is located the 

 river division of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, along the 

 foot of the high-level terrace. This terrace ranges from sixty-five 

 to eighty feet above low water. Excavations in this terrace to a 

 depth of forty-three feet show it to consist of interstratified sand, 

 fine gravel, and clay in small quantities, all with rare exceptions 

 cross-bedded. Coarse gravel is found at the top of the terrace ; 

 but, except for two or three feet on top, only rare pieces of gravel 

 occur of more than one half cubic inch in size. Two small ravines 

 cut through the terrace at Brilliant. A mile below these, Block 

 House Run, and a mile and a half below, Riddle's Run cut through 

 the terrace down to the flood-plain of the river. Otherwise the 

 surface of the terrace is a plain. A half mile of turnpike was 

 built on it, in which the original surface varied less than two feet. 



FIG. 2. GENERAL VIEW OF THE ABANDONED GRAVEL PIT. 



Indian mounds and intrusive burials occur at numerous places on 

 the terrace, but the stratification and cross-bedding of the sands 

 and gravels of it are such that intrusive burials or excavations 

 can not be made without leaving evidence so distinct as to be 



