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In 1 89 1 I visited this site with Mr. Frank Leverett. Traces 

 of the fire -marked stones were found, but the waters had removed 

 the hearths previously observed. A critical examination of the 

 sedimentary deposits leaves the impression that they are quite 

 modern. The upper surface is but little above the present flood 

 plain, and has the appearance of a modern alluvial deposit of 

 black, loamy earth, including thin irregular layers of fine gravels. 

 I see no reason, considering the facility of mutation character- 

 izing such deposits, why the hearths may not have belonged to 

 the occupants of the site of the noted Turner group of mounds 

 near by. It is seen from Professor Putnam's report that there 

 were many hearths in and beneath these works. "An examina- 

 tion was also made of the surrounding embankment of the work, 

 and much to our surprise portions of it were found to cover large 

 areas of burnt stones. Several of these old fireplaces were 

 explored inch by inch with the trowel, and in the ashes and 

 among the charcoal were found numerous pieces of the bones of 

 various animals, many potsherds, flint chips, broken and perfect 

 implements, ornaments of several kinds, pieces of mica, etc., all 

 similar to what has been found in previous years at other places 

 in this interesting group of earthworks."^ It may, I believe, be 

 taken for granted that these hearths, notwithstanding their inti- 

 mate relations with deposits of gravel, will never form any part 

 of the evidence arrayed in support of an ice-age man or a pale- 

 olithic culture. 



Another discovery, to which much attention has been given 

 on account of its supposed bearing upon the paleolithic question, 

 was made in 1889. Mr; W. C. Mills, of Newcomerstown, Tus- 

 carawas county, Ohio, found a single specimen of chipped flint in 

 an exposure of glacial gravel in that place. The specimen fell into 

 the hands of Professor G. F. Wright, by whom it has been widely 

 exhibited and published. A cut of it appeared in his "Man and 

 the Glacial Period," from which work a brief extract may be 

 given in this place. He states that Mr. Mills found this "finely 

 shaped flint implement sixteen feet below the surface of the 



'Putnam, F. W., 23d and 24th Annual Reports Peabody Museum, p. 94. 



