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completely oxydized as to break very easily ; the workmanship was rough, and the 

 print of the hammer was upon them. 



" A full cart-load of bones, taken from the basement story of my house, I had 

 wheeled off into my garden : over them I erected a mound, and crowned it with 

 a summer-house ; and there they shall rest for the future. 



" About forty years ago, Dr. Overton, then of Lexington, was upon a visit to 

 Augusta. I had heard of a large pile of stones upon the spur of a hill overlooking 

 the Ohio, about three miles above. We went to visit it, worked hard nearly all 

 day, and, at the depth of about five feet in the centre of the pile, found about a 

 half bushel of charcoal and ashes ; this was all that we could discover. 



"I know of no fortifications, nor of any mounds or tumuli, in the county of 

 Bracken. At Claysville, near the bank of Licking River, there is a very large 

 mound ; but I have not been informed that either curiosity or scientific research 

 has induced the citizens to open it." 



Cemeteries, analogous to those in Tennessee and Kentucky, as already observed, 

 exist in Ohio. One, in the extreme northeastern part of the State, at Conneaut, 

 on Lake Erie, covers about four acres. " It is in the form of an oblong square, 

 and appears to have been laid out in lots running north and south, and exhibits all 

 the order and propriety of arrangement deemed necessary to constitute Christian 

 burial. The graves are distinguished by slight depressions, disposed in straight 

 rows, and were originally estimated to number from two to three thousand. Some 

 were examined in 1800, and found to contain human bones, blackened by time, 

 which, on exposure, crumbled to dust. On the first examination of the ground by 

 the early settlers, they found it covered with a primitive forest. A number of 

 mounds occur in the vicinity. The pioneers observed that the lands around this 

 place exhibited signs of having once been thrown up in squares and terraces, and 

 laid out in gardens." — (How^s Gaz. of Ohio, p. 40.) 



A cemetery also occurs in Coshocton county, in the same state, which is de- 

 scribed by Dr. Hildreth of Marietta, in Silliman's Journal of Science and Art. It 

 is situated a short distance below the town of Coshocton, on an elevated, gravelly 

 alluvion ; in 1830, it covered about ten acres. The graves were arranged regularly 

 in rows, with avenues between them ; and the heads of the skeletons were placed 

 to the west. Traces of vrood were observed around some of the skeletons ; from 

 which circumstance it is supposed the bodies were deposited in coffins. The 

 interments had evidently been what may be denominated bone burials, and were 

 not made until after the decomposition of the flesh. The graves, consequently, 

 measure but little more than three feet in length, the bones being dismembered and 

 packed upon each other, or flexed together, thus giving rise to the popular error 

 of an aboriginal pigmy race. No relics are described as accompanying the human 

 remains.* Near this cemetery is a large mound. 



* It is said that in one of the graves were found pieces of oaken boards, together with some wrought 

 iron nails. If such were the fact, the burial must have been made subsequent to the commencement of 

 European intercourse. It is possible that this was a burial of later date than the others. 



