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which now bears the former’s name. Moreau and his companion 
were probably waylaid, as it is said ‘‘they never returned, and his 
name was given to the river.” 
Roy and his companion hid their canoe, went across the country 
on foot, and thus got above the Indians and their captives, who 
were in canoes. Taken by surprise, the Indians ran away, and the 
whites started back. 
* * * When they passed the rock where the figures I have described appeared, 
Marie told her father that they had stopped there for a few hours as they went up, 
and the head man or chief in charge of the party had ‘‘painted the rock,”’ and from 
that day to this it is called the Painted Rock. 
OLD FORT AND VILLAGE SITE IN SALINE COUNTY (18) 
The area lying along the bluffs overlooking the Missouri river 
from two to six miles southwest of Miami, in Saline county, is a 
succession of knolls, ridges, and peaks, having steep slopes on every 
side except where cols connect them with one another or with the 
plateau farther back from the stream. The summits are of moderate 
elevation, nowhere more than 200 feet above the level of the overflow 
bottom land; most of them are less than 150 feet. In some cases 
rock outcrops near the bottom of the bluffs, but none is found at a 
greater elevation than 75 to 100 feet, all above this being loess. 
Near the river the natural wear of the land is reinforced by the 
action of numerous springs which flow out over the limestone, and 
work precipitous ravines into the bluffs, the combined surface and 
subterranean erosion producing the rugged features to which this 
region owes its rather fanciful name of ‘“‘The Pinnacles.” 
Aboriginal burial mounds stand on various points along the bluffs, 
though not in so great numbers as farther up or down the Missouri; 
the largest, so far as can be remembered by residents, was not more 
than 6 feet high. Nearly all of the mounds have been dug into more 
or less; but it seems very little has been discovered in them. 
O_Lp Fort 
On a ridge running nearly south from the general level of the table- 
land, on the farm of Mr. George P. Haynie, of Miami, is an earthen 
inclosure popularly known as the ‘Old Fort.” Its exact location is 
on KE. 1 SW. 4 SE. } sec. 24, T. 52 N, R. 22 W. 
The north and south ends are on the summit of the ridge, while 
the east and west sides are carried along on the slopes at various 
distances below, curving and winding along the hillsides to conform 
as nearly as may be with the various inequalities produced by 
natural erosion. 
