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 CHAPTER III

T has been noted that a considerable portion of archæological remains in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin are inlandor away from the largest river valleys. The lands on the lesser streams were occupied in some instances for the entire distance to the springs. For instance, in Ohio and Kentucky we find only a fraction of the ancient works on the shores of the Ohio rivereither mounds or forts. In Ohio the largest collections are found in the interior counties mentioned, as is the case in Kentucky, at a distance varying from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles from the great water highway which flows by these states on the north or on the south.

As with these states, so with the counties within themthe mound-building people seem to have been scattered widely. An