188 The Cincinnati Tablet. 



From the numerous skeletons disclosed in this excavation, and the 

 promiscuous manner ^in which tliey were mingled, Mr. Pidgeon was 

 disposed to regard this as a " battle burial mound." 



The Cincinnati Tablet. 



J. W. Foster, in the Appendix to Pre-historic Races, says : I have 

 purposely declined to discuss the ante-Columbian relations which many 

 conjecture to have existed through the voyages of the Northmen to 

 Vinland, and of the Welsh, under Prince Madog, to some supposed 

 point in the Southern States, for the reason that if such an intercourse 

 was ever established, these people have left behind no memorials. 

 The Runic inscription, which the Danish antiquarians profess to recog- 

 nize on the Dighton rock, is to the American ethnologist but the crude 

 picture writing of the savage. The alphabetical characters inscribed 

 on the " Grave Creek Stone," and the " Holy Stone of Newark'* with 

 its Hebrew letters, which have called out from philologists a wonderful 

 amount of learning, one is disposed involuntarily to associate with the 

 famous stone which served as the basis of Mr. Pickwick's fame. 



The "Cincinnati Tablet," which was supposed to bear " a singular 

 resemblance to the Egyptian cartouche," was fresh with the dust of 

 the graver when the artist first attempted to palm it off as a genuine 

 relic of the Mound-builders.* " The Round Tower of Newport," in- 

 stead of being a Norse monument, ^turns out to be but a wind-mill, 

 built by one of the Rhode Island governors ; and "The Skeleton in 

 Armor," which the poet has wrought into a fine ballad, represented 

 simply all that was mortal of a Narragansett Indian, rigged out in 

 European trappings. 



The Rev. Morgan Jones, who swore that in his travels among the 

 "Doegs" of the Tuscarora Nation he found a people with whom he 

 could converse familiarly in the Welsh language, may have been a 

 very worthy man ; but we are disposed to question the truthfulness 

 of a statement at this day, when the author deems it necessary to 

 fortify it by a self sought oath. 



Expressions oj the Cat. 



Mr. Darwin says : 



" A cat when feeling savage and not terrified assumes a crouching 

 attitude, and occasionally protrudes her forefeet, witli the claws ex- 

 serted, ready for striking. The tail is extended, being curled or lashed 



'•'Whittlesey, " Archseological Frauds," 1872. 



