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��heat. It was ornamented all over the exterior surface by finely pulverized white' flint, some- what resembling rice grains, which adhered firmly to it. A short time after the discovery of this vessel, Mr. StuU plowed up a fragment of the same kind of ware in a field northwest

��work when the first settlers came, showing that it had existed for centuries.

Vermilion, Hanoxer and Green Townships possess but few remains of a prehistoric age. In the latter township, near Perrysville, was an inclosure of an oblong form, containing about

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��of his house. He found several specimens of the same earthware on his place. The Indians are not known to have manufactured or used anything of the kind.

On the fifth tier of sections in Montgomery Township, the surveyors found an ancient in-

��one acre. In this inclosure was a conical stone mound. About one-fourth of a mile east of this mound there was a similar stone mound, also one to the west of it. The purpose of these stone mounds is not clearly defined, unless they were sentinel posts.

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��trenchment containing about two acres. It was situated on the north side of Ashland. This earthwork was circular in form, and had a gateway facing the west. Its walls were aliout four feet high, and perhaps twice as wide at the base. A forest of timber grew on the old earth-

��In Mirtlin Townslii}) great numbers of arrow and spear heads are found. Stone axes, wedges and other prehistoric signs, as well as Indian relics, are plentiful. In a ravine, in the north- east part of the township, an old stone mortar, twenty inches across the top and seven across

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