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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



ta!s. At tLe jioiut east it is white, resembling a much weathered chal- 

 cedony. Nearer the river there is considerable chalcedony, and a clear 

 yellowish or "honey-colored" stone, much resembling that found in 

 Europe, though less translucent. The greater i)art, however, is a dark 

 variety, much of it being basanite. There seems to be no regular order 

 in its arrangement. Sometimes the different kinds are in strata, though 

 not always in the same relative position, while, again, three or four sorts 

 are seen in a single large block. There maybe thin seams of shale or 

 other rock between the flint layers, or the flint may be in a solid bed, 

 either with one color merging into another or the line of separation 

 sharply defined, without any change in the texture of the stone. 



Just east of Col. Metham's residence, on a high point overlooking 

 the valley for 3 or 4 miles, was a mound about 5 feet high, made of flat 

 stones, ill layers one over another, with the spaces between (where they 

 did not fit up closely) filled with broken stone. This had been built 

 up over a stone box-grave containing a skeleton 7 feet long and a few 

 relics. On the north side of the river, northwest from this mound, nui- 

 ning out from a hill 300 feet high, on the farm of Eobert Darling, 

 is a point whose sides at the top are perpendicular fiom 12 to 20 

 feet. Across this point is a crescent-shaped wall of stone, convex out- 

 wardly, 3 feet high, and reaching to the bluff on each side. It measures 

 about 100 yards in length. 



LICKING COUNTY. 



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With the exception of Eoss, this is the most interesting county, arche- 

 ologically, in the state. From the great works at Newark, divergent 



mound systems reach to 

 the Ohio at Portsmouth 

 and Marietta. Numer- 

 ous earth mounds and 

 inclosures occur, besides 

 several stone inclosures 

 and probably more stone 

 mounds (some of great 

 size) than in any other 

 equal area in the Missis- 

 sippi valley. 



The plat (Fig. 314) 

 shows a group which 

 has not been heretofore 

 represented. It is lo- 

 cated 2 miles southwest 

 of the village of Brownsville and half a mile south of the National road, 

 on a higli hill, from which the siu'iounding country is in view for sev- 

 eral miles. 



The most prominent mound, No. 1, is 120 feet in diameter, with a 





Fig. 314 ilounils near Brownsville, Ohio. 



