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ANTIQUITIES OF BLOUNT COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 



By Miss Annie E. Law, of Hoixister, Cal. 



The relics sent were all fouud in the vicinity of a large mound in 

 Chilliowee Valley, on the banks of the Little Tennessee Iviver, Blount 

 County, Tennessee, except the beads and axes, which were found on 

 Tellico Eiver, Monroe County, Tennessee. The mound in Chilhowee 

 Valley was pa,rtially washed away during a, high tide. It contained 

 seventeen skeletons buried in a sitting posture, surrounded by stone 

 slabs. The mound was some twenty-five feet in diameter, and the 

 graves were in three tiers. With each had been buried wiiter-jugs of 

 crumbling pottery, beads, and stone implements. These had been car- 

 ried off bj^ relic-hunters before I was there. Those I got were iilowed 

 up afterward from sand-beds in the bottom-lands, where the strong 

 current had carried them. 



ANTIQUITIES OF ORLEANS COUNTY, NEWYORK. 

 By FiiANK H. CuGHiNG, OF Medina, N. Y. 



In the town of Shelby, Orleans County, New York, about three miles 

 southwest from the village of Medina, are the remaiHs of one of the most 

 interesting ancient earthworks in the State.* This work is situated 

 at the summit of a slight and not abrupt elevation. It consists of two 

 mural embankments, which are now about two feet in height parallel, 

 and twelve feet distant from each other. They describe almost an ex- 

 act circle, having a diameter of four hundred and thirty feet and an 

 area of three and one-third acres. Two fences upon original " section- 

 lines," running, one north and south, the other east and west, divide thin 

 inclosure into four nearly equal parts or quadrants. Those portions of 

 the work included in the northeastern and south western quadrants have 

 for many years been under cultivation, and the embankments are nearly 

 obliterated. The northwestern and southeastern portions are still cov- 

 ered with forest-trees. In these portions the walls are interrupted only 

 by two sally-ports or openings for passage. These openings occur at 

 nearly opposite points in the circle. The passage through the outer 

 wall is not in either exactly opposite to that through the inner. In one 

 they are sixteen and in the other thirty feet apart. To avoid two large 

 bowlders of Niagara limestone, the inner wall at one point makes a slight 

 deflection from its regular circular course. 



Upon these embankments are standing trees and the stumps of trees 

 that had commenced their growth long before the Jesuit fathers had ex- 



* This work has previously been described in Sqiiiers Aboriginal Monuments of 

 New York, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. II, 1851. 



