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Mounds at Point Pleasant near the Mouth of the Kanawha Eiver. 



Kei)orte(l by P. W. Norris. 



Five mounds on the high bottom lands of Gen. John McCausland on 

 the south side of the river near the Putnam County line. 



Kock heaps 3 miles below the above mounds on opposite sides of a 

 ravine, on bluffs overlooking the river, on laud of Peter S. Couch. 

 Between these bluffs and the river are five mounds, all of which have 

 been explored. 



A mile below the preceding, on the other side of the river in an old 

 cultivated field, were one large and several small mounds, and 3 miles 

 still farther down the river on the Goshorn farm, a field on the high 

 bottom is dotted with mounds, one of which is 150 feet long, 75 feet 

 wide, and 7 feet high. Skeletons were found in all these that were 

 examined. 



Reported by Col. P. W. Norris. 



Six enclosures and a number of small mounds on the Beale farm, 7 

 miles below Point Pleasant. 



Three miles below the preceding are several mounds from 6 to 20 

 feet high. The largest is on the farm of Judge Moore. 

 Reported by Col. P. W. Norriy. 



The "McCulluch mounds," on the farm of C. J. McCuUuch, 5 miles 

 above the mouth of the Kanawha, on the south side of the river, on a 

 sloi)ing terrace. "The old war trail of nations" is said to have crossed 

 the spur ui^on which it stands, just below it. 



Reported by P. W. Norris. 

 Petrographs, on the Miller farm, 3 miles above the mouth of the 

 Kanawha Eiver and near the Jvucient trail before mentioned. 

 Reported by P. W. Norris. 



Ohio County. 



Shell deposits at the mouth of Short Creek, 9 miles above the city of 

 Wheeling. 



Described by II. B. Hubbard, Sm. Rep., 1881, pp. 637, 638. 



Putnam County. 



luclosure and mounds near Winfield on the second terrace, on the 

 south side of the river, just below tbe town. 



Ancient furnaces, 4 miles east of Hurricane on the farm of J. J, 

 Estes. 



Described by Col. P. W. Norris. 



Wood County. 



Mound surrounded by embankments on the Virginia side of the Ohio 

 River, nearly opposite Blennerhassett's Island. 



Noticed and figured iii Auc. Mou., p. 175. 



