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GRA\^S NEAR MCKENNAn's 



On a low spur, projecting about halfway up a high hill opposite 

 McKennan's house, 2^ miles northeast of Waynesville, are two of 

 the ordinary stone graves or cairns, both small. One has been torn 

 apart; the other is intact. 



They are mentioned onlj^ because in the one which has not been 

 disturbed the stones are sunken at the center, affording good e^d- 

 dence that timbers were placed over the corpse before the stones were 

 piled up. 



ROUBIDOUX CAVE (19) 



In a A-ertical bluff overlooking the junction of Roubidoux Creek 

 and the Gasconade River is a cavern with a high, wide entrance 

 giving access to a large chamber which has several smaller but 

 well-lighted rooms opening into it. There was formerly a consider- 

 able depth of earth on the rock bottom, but most of it has been 

 taken out for fertilizer. What is left is dry near the entrance, but 

 wet farther in. Although it would make an ideal Indian home, being 

 easy of access and within a few rods of the two streams, there could 

 be found no indications of such habitation ; and owing to the small 

 amount of earth remaining, the presence of many large rocks, and 

 the close proximity of a large club house on the public highway 

 immediately in front, no excavation is possible. 



A cairn on the point of the cliff over this cave has been completely 

 demolished. 



RICHLAND CAVE (20) 



There is a large cave at the head of a ravine a fourth of a mile 

 below the bridge over the Gasconade River, on the Richland and 

 Hanna road, 7| miles from Richland. The entrance is TO feet wide 

 and 40 feet high ; daylight extends to a point 200 feet within, where 

 the cave divides into two parts, both of which turn abruptly. Cave 

 earth near the entrance on one side is scanty in quantity, damp and 

 moldy; but beyond this it is dry, unevenly surfaced, and appears 

 to have been somewhat disturbed. There is considerable refuse on 

 and in the dry earth as far back as the inner end of the front 

 chamber, and were it not for the many rocks, too large to be removed, 

 which cover nearly the entire floor and would make excavation very 

 difficult and incomplete, the deposits would probably repay investi-. 

 gation. 



ROLLINS CA%TES (19) 



On the farm of Sam T. Rollins, 2^ miles northwest of Waynes- 

 ville, are two large caves. 



