GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
been extensively worked in either of these counties in which abundance 
of human bones have not been discovered. The skeletons are usually 
found within two or three feet of the surface. We are left to con- 
jecture in giving any reason why this material was used in which 
to make interments of the dead. Trinkets of any description are 
extremely rare in such graves, although not entirely unknown. In 
none, of which I heard, were there any indications of unusual care or 
elaborateness in the interments. Possibly the ease of excavating a grave 
in such a material may have determined the choice. But is it not a lit- 
tle singular that the inhabitants of a long-past age should have known 
the position of these gravel beds, covered, as they were, with a dense 
forest ; while two generations of the intelligent people of this age had 
not any thought of their existence until within a half dozen of years ? 
Stone implements.—F lint, arrow and lance-points, stone-hammers, bark- 
peelers, hematite fishing bobs or sinkers, and other articles of this class 
are found especially along the water-courses. As no value and but a 
passing interest have been attached to these articles, they have not been 
preserved, but have been broken up or lost. Still many are found yet 
by persons engaged in working the soil. Noone locality has furnished 
more than the borders of Deer Creek, but they are common on all the 
streams, and, indeed, over the whole surface of the county are they found. 
As the soil in Fayette and in parts of Clinton has not been subjected to 
the plow as much as in other places, and, of course, some of it not 
plowed at all, there perhaps remain more still to be gathered than have 
ever been heretofore. Some persons, seeing in these articles a story of a 
former race of human beings, who have left but little else to tell of their 
manners or civilization, are gathering them up to preserve them from 
_ destruction. Nothing more amazes one in contemplating these relics 
of a people of a long past age than the immense number of them scat- 
tered over the surface of the earth. Perhaps no single acre of ground in 
Central or Southern Ohio but has furnished at least one flint arrow-point ; 
but the average would be much greater than one to the acre, and it is not 
too much to say that every farm, at least, has furnished sometime a stone 
hatchet or bark-peeler. ; 
Hematite bowlder.—In Clinton county, near the residence of Samuel 
Lamar, one of the county commissioners, I found a hematite bowlder 
weighing about two hundred and fifty pounds. This was extremely hard 
and seemed to be of the same material from which the sinkers, referred 
to in the last paragraph, were made. y 
Flow-wells—There are several wells in each county, from the mouth of 
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