[1755] Life of Cutler, ii. 14, 252.
[1756] Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., iv.
[1757] Their survey is used in Stevens’s Flint Chips by Sherwood.
[1758] Cf. no. 11, 23, 41.
[1759] Some minor references: Whittlesey in Fireland’s Pioneer (June, 1865), and in his Fugitive Essays (Hudson, O., 1852). C. H. Mitchener’s Ohio Annals (Dayton, 1876). Hist. Mag., xii. 240. C. W. Butterfield in Mag. West. Hist., Oct., 1886 (iv. 777). I. Dille in Smithsonian Rept., 1866, p. 359; and Hill and others in Ibid. 1877. C. Thomas in Science, xi. 314. Thomas J. Brown on artificial terraces in Amer. Antiquarian, May, 1888. Howe’s Hist. Collections of Ohio, as well as the numerous county histories, afford some material.
[1760] The annexed map of the vicinity of Chillicothe will show their abundance in a confined area. E. B. Andrews on those in the S. E. in Peabody Mus. Rept., x. MacLean’s Moundbuilders (Cincinnati, 1879) is of no original value except for Butler County. Squier and Davis give a plan of the fortified hill in this county. Walker’s Athens County. Isaac J. Finley and Rufus Putnam’s Pioneer Record of Ross County (Cincinnati, 1871). A plan of the High Bank works in this county is given in the Amer. Antiquarian, v. 56. The Highland County works, called Fort Hill, are described in the Ohio Arch. & Hist. Q., 1887, p. 260. G. S. B. Hampstead’s Antiq. of Portsmouth (1875) embodies results of a long series of surveys. Cf. Journal Anthropological Institute, vii. 132.
[1761] D. Drake’s Picture of Cincinnati (1815); Harrison in Ohio Hist. & Philos. Soc., i.; Squier and Davis; Ford’s Cincinnati, i. ch. 2.
[1762] The best known of the ancient fortifications of this region is that called Fort Ancient, about 42 miles from Cincinnati. It was surveyed by Prof. Locke in 1843. Cf. L. M. Hosea in Quart. Journal of Science (Cinn., Oct., 1874); Putnam in the Amer. Architect, xiii. 19; Amer. Antiquarian, April, 1878; Force’s Moundbuilders; Warden’s Recherches; Squier and Davis, with plan reduced in MacLean, p. 21; Short, 51; and on its present condition, Peab. Mus. Rept., xvi. 168. There is an excellent map of the mounds in the Little Miami Valley, in Dr. C. L. Metz’s Prehistoric Monuments of the Little Miami Valley, in the Journal of the Cincinnati Soc. of Nat. Hist., vol. i., Oct., 1878. The explorations of Putnam and Metz are recorded in the Peab. Mus. Repts., xvii., xviii. (Marriott mound), and xx. Cf. Putnam’s lecture in Mag. West. History, Jan., 1888. There are explorations at Madisonville noticed in the Journal of the Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., Apr., 1880. Others in this region are recorded in L. B. Welch and J. M. Richardson’s Prehistoric relics found near Wilmington (Sparks mound), and by F. W. Langdon in the appendix of Short.
[1763] M. C. Read’s Archæol. of Ohio (Cleveland, 1888), with cut. Col. Whittlesey made the survey in Squier and Davis, and it is copied by Foster. O. C. Marsh in Hist. Mag., xii. 240; and in Amer. Journal of Science, xcii. (July, 1866). Isaac Smucker, a local antiquary, in Newark American, Dec. 19, 1872; in Amer. Hist. Record, ii. 481; and in Amer. Antiq., iii. 261 (July, 1881). Cf. Nadaillac, 99, and view in Lossing’s War of 1812, p. 565.
Other antiquities of the central region are described in no. 11 Western Res. Hist. Soc. Tracts (Hardin Co.); in Ohio Arch. Hist. Quart., March, 1888 (Franklin Co.); Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., April, 1863 (Fairfield Co., etc.).