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[[underlined]]The Great Ash Case on Queer Creek.[[/underline]] This was five miles southeast of South Bloomington, Hocking County. This resembled much of the Saltpetre Cave just described; like it, it was at the heard of the gorge, the land above was level until it approached the precipice, which was nigh 60 feet high, about 250 feet long, horse-shoe-shaped with the water [[strikethrough]]the precipice[[/strikethrough]] which forms the little stream running through the valley trickling over ^[[it]]. We made soundings in the upper or horse-shoe part of the cave, but found it as before, only a few inches of sand and then bed-rock. Coming farther round down the stream and on its right bank, we came to a projecting and overhanging rock similar to that which formed the horse-shoe, about 100 feet long, affording a shelter about 20 feet wide. This ledge or cavern-floor was covered with ashes mixed with sand and soil about 4 or 5 feet deep. Soundings were made, and a half-dozen shovelfuls thrown out, revealed that which we had been long seeking - that is, evidence of human occupation, in the shape of bits of flint, chips, spauls, &c., fragments of pottery, &c.,  There were some human bones, and a considerable number of animal bones. While we were digging