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Mingled with these remains many flint and other stone implements 

 and weapons were found, with a few fragments of rade pottery, such as 

 is commonly met with all over the country. I could learn of no orna- 

 ments, except some shells of the common muscle, perforated for suspen- 

 sion. Two perforated stones, of the kind supposed to be weaving-shut- 

 tles or thread-gauges, had been found, but carried away. 



The polished and drilled ornamental stones found frequently in other 

 localities seemed to be entirely absent here, indicating that these cave- 

 dwellers had not advanced beyond the strictly useful arts. I found in the 

 ashes a number of arrow-heads, scrapers, and knives of dark flint, a stone 

 hatchet, and a buckhorn handle for a poinard or knife, similar to the 

 handles of some modern hunting-knives. These were all fouud in the 

 ashes which had not been disturbed. Quantities of flint-chippings lie 

 around, and a stone, on the surface of which are fourteen small circular 

 depressions, disposed in two nearly i)arallel rows. 



To the left of this large shelter, and under the continuation of the 

 same roof, is another on a high shelf of rock, reached by climbing on the 

 fallen rocks which form the front wall. It is large, but does not afford 

 standing-room in more than half its area, but has been used, perhaps, as 

 a sleeping-apartment, as the rocks by which you reach it are worn 

 smooth. 



Immediately in front is a steep descent of about one hundred and 

 fifty feet to a brook, now dry, and, at a corresponding elevation on the 

 opposite side, is another high cliff, perpendicular on its northern and 

 overhanging on its southern face. Here many chippiugs of flint, some 

 arrow-heads, and a flint knife were found, as if it had been used, also, 

 either as a dwelling or workshop. It is not so large or so well shel- 

 tered as the other. My guide informed me of several other rock-shelters 

 and of some stone-walled graves in the vicinity, which I had not time to 

 visit. Although the flint used is easily worked, the articles found were 

 all of ruder workmanship than those found at many other places. 



In the road just outside of the town of Hardinsburgh I noticed a num- 

 ber of characters and figures cut in the surface of the flat rocks here 

 exposed ; some of them are partially obliterated by travel, but they 

 still occupy a large space. As there are many smooth rock-surfa^ies 

 exposed in the vicinity, and none other exhibited these marks, I 

 had no hesitation in considering them to be the work of man, and 

 afterward learned that it was called " Indian Eock." The tan, T, is fre- 

 quently seen, while other marks are in the form of the Greek cross, 

 with shorter arms above than below. Others, and these the most 

 numerous, were a combination of the latter with other lines, X X? 

 and some other characters I cannot now describe, having lost the draw- 

 ing I made at the time. 



At Cloverport I spent some time on the river-bank searching for 

 remains, and was rewarded by finding a number of flint weapons with 

 many chips or flakes, and, on the boys of the neighborhood becoming 



