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Identifier: ohioarchological01ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical publications
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
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Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by F.J. Heer
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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the bluff is 60 feet high. A carefulapplication of the level and rod shows that the point markedC is 95 feet above the level of the creek near by; andthe point B, 90 feet. At N the old channel of the creekwas closed by glacial drift many thousand years ago. Imme-diately beyond this obstruction, to the eastward, is the buried 1Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, pp. 29-30. aIn the technical description of land in this corner of the State the wordnorth must not be used. In the location of the mounds of Butler county, asgiven in the first number of the Quarterly this mistake of using N. (north)occurs nine times; and the mounds as thus described lie in Paulding andDefiance counties—not in Butler at all. The work described in this articleis on the Miami University lands, and all these lands have the sectionsdivided into six lets—not into quarters, as elsewhere. 265 266 Ohio Archv,,,,% \ & ANCIENT WORKWEAK. OXFORD,BUTLER Co.O.
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^DrcLUJ-tz2v V.vcr.j-e7i/<ius St A l g ■JQ.tfTt: ^fflM. Note.—The scale of the above map in the original drawing was 320 feetto the inch. In making the plate the map was, by error, reduced in size,giving an actual scale of about 500 feet to the inch. forest, mentioned in the Ohio Geological Survey. The creekwas forced to turn abruptly back, and it has cut for itself achannel over two miles in circuit; whereas, the direct dis- Ancient Work near Oxford, Ohio. 267 tance across is about three-fourths of a mile. Of course, atfirst, the creek kept close to the bank from W all the way tothe township line as marked in the plat. It is possible, butnot probable, that the stream so ran in the time of theMound Builders. But it has not so run for many hundredyears. When settlers moved into this vicinity eighty years ago,the valley at O was covered by a heavy forest, chiefly sugar-tree. This fact I have from Mr. Wallace, who lives but afew hundred yards away, and speaks from personal knowl-e

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