474 Ohio. Arch. and Hist.
Society Publications.
would be to detract from the estimate in
which the work might be held.
The Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Society cannot, of course, agree
to sanction such vagaries.
Respectfully,
R. W. MCFARLAND.
ITINERARY OF THE SECRETARY.
On August 18th, Secretary Randall made a
trip to Chillicothe and
procuring conveyance drove out some
seven miles to the location of
the "Harness Mounds," where
Prof. W. C. Mills, Curator of the So-
ciety's Museum, was conducting his
explorations. The Secretary spent
the day at the mounds, and while there
was fortunate to see the discov-
ery of a grave and its opening by the
explorers under the direction of
Prof. Mills and his assistant, Mr. A. B.
Coover. Portions of a human
skeleton were exhumed and some fine
copper ear-rings and other orna-
ments were taken from the gave. Prof.
Mills was unusually successful
in his finds during the summer
explorations. He explored completely
the largest of the Harness Mounds which
had been opened at previous
periods, respectively, by Squier and
Davis, Prof. F. W. Putnam and
Prof. Warren K. Moorehead. Prof. Mills
had under his direction an
excellent force of eight or ten men.
Prof. Mills will prepare and publish
in due time in the Quarterly a detailed
statement of his explorations for
the past summer.
* * *
On Friday, August 25th, the Secretary
journeyed to Piqua, where
he was met by Judge E. L. Hoskins of the
Probate Court of Shelby county,
Mr. H. R. McVey, Superintendent of the
Shelby schools, and Mr. A. J.
Hess, President of the Sidney Board of
Education. In company with
these gentlemen a trolly car was taken
to the historic residence of John
Johnson, who for many years was the
government agent for the Ohio
Indians during their residence on the
Ohio Reservation. Near this John-
son residence was the old stockade fort
known as "Pickawillany," pic-
turesquely located on the banks of the
Great Miami River. The party
also visited the monument close by,
erected by the Daughters of the
American Revolution, to commemorate the
spot of the last battle of
"The French and Indian War."
It is a splendid granite rock, upon which
is this inscription:
"Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter
of the Daughters of
the American Revolution in Memory of the
Last Battle of the
French and Indian War, Fought near This
Spot 1763."