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river to the terminal moraine. Its surface is about thirty-five 

 feet above the flood-plain of the Tuscarawas ; it consists of strati- 

 fied material, containing many granitic pebbles and much gra- 

 nitic gravel. The deposit at Newcomerstown extends over many 

 acres, having been protected from erosion in the recess at the 



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mouth of Buckhorn Creek. Through the middle of this deposit 

 the railroad had cut its road-bed, and for years has been appro- 

 priating the gravel for ballast. 



Mr. Mills is an educated business man, who had been a pupil 

 in geology of Prof. Orton, of the State University, and had with 

 him done considerable field-work in geology. Mr. Mills's charac- 

 ter and reputation are entirely above suspicion. In addition to 

 his business he took a laudable interest in the collection of Indian 

 relics, and had in his office thousands of flint implements, col- 

 lected by him and his associates in the vicinity, who had been 

 organized into an archaeological society. His office was but a 

 short distance from the gravel pit from which I have said the 



