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neighborhood of Ripley [Brown county, Ohio] are stone graves."[1]

"Just east of Col. Metham's residence, on a high point overlooking the valley . . . was a mound."[2]

" . . . A group . . . located 2 miles southwest of the village of Brownsville [Licking county, Ohio] and half a mile south of the National Road, on a high hill, from which the surrounding country is in view for several miles."[3]

In the Catalogue of Prehistoric Works issued by the Bureau of Ethnology almost every page gives proof that the mound-builders were occupants of the highlands. Some quotations will be in place:

"Inclosures, hut-rings, and mounds on a sandy ridge between the Mississippi River and Old Town Lake at the point where they make their nearest approach to each other, and near the ancient outlet of Old Town Lake" (Phillips county, Arkansas).[4]

  1. Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 452.
  2. Id., p. 458.
  3. Id., p. 458.
  4. Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains, p. 22.