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the inference that they were deposited there since tht' inound was erected : but the 

 one with which the sharpened bones and hier()<r|y|)!iical stone were found, was in a 

 decayed state. Beinj^ in the centre nnd rnihrr below ihv level of the surrounding 



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ground, it was no doubt the object over wliich the mound Avas erected. I have a 

 part of the skull ; the remainder of the skeleton was destroyed by the diggers." 



The position of the skeleton with which it was found, as also the other circum- 

 stances attendmg the discovery of this relic, leave little doubt as to its authenticity. 

 It was discovered in December, 1841. The material is a fine-grained, compact 

 sandstone, of a light brown color. It measures five inches in length, three in 

 breadth at the ends, two and six tenths at the middle, and is about half an inch in 

 thickness. The sculptured fac- varies very slightly from a perfect plane. The 

 figures are cut in low relief, (the lines being not more than one twentieth of an 

 inch in depth,) and occupy a rectangular space four inches and two tenths lono-, 

 by two and one tenth wide. The sides of the stone, it will be observed, are 

 slightly concave. Right lines are drawn across the face near the ends. At right 

 angles and exterior to thess are notches, twenty-five at one end, and twenty-four at 

 the other. Extending diagonally inward are fifteen longer lines, eight at one end 

 and seven at the other. The back of the stone has three deep, longitudinal 

 grooves, and several depressions, evidently caused by rubbing, — probably produced 

 in sharpening the instrument used in the sculpture. 



Without discussing the " singular resemblance which the relic bears to the 

 Egyptian carlouch,'''' it will i)e suflicient to direct atfenliou to the reduplication of 



* From ;i riniwinc; bv H. C, GnosvKvon 



