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entirely broken up about two years since, by a Vandal, to Ibrnish the materials for 

 building a chimney and walling a cellar ! By a strange fatality this rock was 

 selected for the purpose, although there were an abundance of others in the 

 vicinity. It is represented to have been charged with numerous outline figures 

 and emblematic devices. Efforts were made to recover some of the inscribed 

 fragments, but without success. Nearly opposite this place, on the Ohio side, 

 three miles below the village of Burlington, at a point where the Ohio sweeps 



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along the base of the sandstone cliffs, and where numerous fallen blocks line the 

 shore, a similar inscribed rock once existed. It however has lately shared the 

 fate of its neighbor on the other side of the stream. It was situatcnl below the 

 high-water mark ; and its proximity to the water proved, in the end, the cause of its 

 destruction, as the fragments quarried off could be easily placed on floats for 

 transportation to the points required. Still another is said to have existed near 

 the edge of the water, at a place known as the Hanging Rock, now the site of a 

 furnace village, twenty-four miles above the mouth of the Scioto. It has probably 

 been destroyed in like manner. There is however a very singular one still in 

 existence a few miles above the town of Portsmouth, the southern terminus of the 

 Oliio and Erie Canal, at the mouth of tlie Scioto. It consists of a colossal human 



