il-l The Aim i'i r,n, Geologist. Feb. i89i 
found at several places in immediate vicinity as follows: on the- 
bank of the river opposite, on Mr. Ridge's farm, and on Mr. 
Cowden's place, but he states that the hight of each terrace is- 
about the same, varying from 135 ft. to 137 ft. above high water. 
Mr. Brown, the editor of the Waynesville Oazette, once took the 
writer around among these terraces and from these to others ten 
miles a way on Caesar's creek, and near Waynesville. The result 
was that each terrace was shown to have about the same general 
level, and to the writer were plainly natural. 
There are, however, those who still insist that pottery and 
arrow heads and the remains of encampments are so common on 
these terraces that they must be artificial. It is also maintained 
that the Indians knew about these terraces, and that in marching 
against a tribe they would traverse a terrace as far as it extended. 
All that we have to say about this is that Indians did not throw up 
highways along the sides of bluff's to march on. and it would be 
about as reasonable to say that Indians built railroads, as to 
maintain that they built these terraces as roadways for themselves. 
The fort near which these terraces are seen is, to be sure, the old- 
est of the two forts, and was, as Mr. Moorhead states, for a long- 
time the site of an ancient village. It is the opinion of the writer 
that the people who built this -old fort' 1 were the very people who 
built the great Serpent Mound and that they were a very wild 
race, in fact were serpent-worshipers, but the people who built the 
new fort were a much more cultivated people, agriculturists and 
sun-worshipers, yet neither of them were advanced enough to 
erect artificial terraces like these. The geologisl will lie able to 
tell us something about the causes which were at work when these 
upper terraces were formed, and they may possibly help us to 
solve the problem as to the time when the first races of Mound 
Builders were likely to have come on the stage of action. The 
terminal moraine we understand extends down into this region on 
the Ohio, and the paleolithic people, so called, are supposed to 
have followed up the ice sheet and to have dropped their rude 
weapons into the water or upon the ice. the gravel proving to be 
the safe depository for them until the days of railroads and 
modern modifications of the earth's surface. The "disturbed"' 
gravel reveals the early advent of man. though whether he was- 
the ancestor of the Eskimo or not is now unknown. 
