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At the bottom of this cavity, in red clay, the diggers found a hard glass bottle, of uncommon thickness, with a short neck, and the lower part flat, with ridges projecting on the sides, as if protruded by the pressure of the bottle to the ground when in a plastic state. Near the spot where the bottle was found, were a number of fire coals and some chumps?. The bottle was fifteen or twenty feet at least below the surface of the bluff, and more than thirty feet from the margin of the stream.

Along the Ohio, where the river in many places swells over its banks; hearths & fireplaces are seen, two, four and six feet below the surface. It is supposed by some to be a long time since the dirt was deposited over them. Around them are immense quantities of muscle shells, bones of animals, unclear. Upon the surface above these chimneys & fireplaces, there grew, at the first settlement of the country by the whites, as large trees as any in the forest. The conclusion made by some, is that a large space, probably 1,000 years, has elapsed since these hearths were deserted. Muscle shells used in all the pottery of the ancient inhabitants, and found at all their dwellings, shows a much greater abundance of them produced in our waters in those days than at the present; a much more agreeable taste in the muscle than at the present