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six feet in length, & the toes carved each to represent a shell of the murix. These shells have been found in many mounds which have been opened in every part of Ohio. And this proves that a considerable value was put upon them by their owners. (Arch & Americana, 241) One of the mounds near the Lake, formerly the bed of the river, at the mouth of the Merimac, near St. Genevieve, is composed chiefly of shells. The inhabitants have taken away a great part of them for lime.

323. In the county of Bourbon in Kentucky, on the south side of Stone's fork about 5 miles n. East of Paris, are seven piles of rocks placed in a direct line: they are from eight to ten feet in height, and from twenty-five to thirty feet in diameter; the base of a circular form, & terminating in a cone at the top. These piles are situated in a high & commanding eminence, formed by the bluff of the creek, & at the distance of from 300 to 400 yards from it. The piles are composed of broad flat stones, presenting evident marks of rock over which water had once run, & seemed to be of same species of stone as that which is yet seen in the bottom of the creek. Some of the rocks are large masses, & must have required