‘ The Prehistoric Monuments of Anderson Township. 303 
high, and sixty feet indiameter at base. It is one ofa line of mounds 
extending from the Ohio river to Newtown, and across Hamilton county 
to the Mill Creek valley, and thence up this valley to Hamilton in 
Butler county. Through the Clough valley seems to have been the 
course of a great trail or highway, leading from the Little Miami val- 
ley to a point on the Ohio river, about where the village of Palestine, 
in Clermont county, is situated, and along this route many isolated 
graves, burials under stone heaps, and beds of charred wood and 
ashes are discovered. On the Henry Brachman estate, near Cedar 
Point station, on the Cincinnati & Portsmouth R. R., is a mound three 
and a half feet high, and 40 feet in diameter; it is situated in a field 
annually cultivated. 
GROUP F. 
Is situated principally on the summit of the high hills above the 
town of California, on the Ohio river, and north of the New Richmond 
turnpike. No. 1 of this group is a mound located on the second 
bottom of the Ohio, near the junction of the Ohio and Little Miami 
rivers, on the lands of Mr. Ebersole. It has an elevation of fully seven 
feet, and is about two hundred and fifty feet in circumference at base. 
The level north of the mound, and extending to the Cincinnati and 
Richmond turnpike, is an ancient cemetery (No. 2, Group ee lei 
burials are under flat slabs of limestone, and are discovered two feet 
from the surface. About thirteen skeletons have been unearthed by 
the plow, but as yet no systematic exploration has been made. 
In survey No. 397, on the Whetstone estate, located on the summit 
of a high bluff commanding a most extensive view up and down the 
Ohio river, is a mound (No. 3, Group F) constructed of flat slabs of 
imestone of various sizes; the greater portion of the stone visible show 
_ evidences of the action of fire. It has an elevation of five and one 
half feet, and a diameter at base of fifty feet. The point on which this 
mound is situated has an elevation of about six hundred feet above 
low-water mark of the Ohio river, 
Directly to the east of this point, and separated from it by a deep 
ravine, is a cresent-shaped ridge, known as the Hawkins ridge, having 
an elevation of about six hundred feet above the river. Immediately 
on the crest of the hill, and overlooking the Ohio river, are five 
‘mounds (No. 4, Group F) forming a continuous chain, extending from 
east to west over two hundred feet. They are five feet high, and have 
a diameter north and south of about fifty feet. At the time of my visit, 
