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and tluit Pierre a la Fleche was a translation of the equivalent Algon- 

 kin. With these facts as a starting-point, the writer found the " work- 

 shop," which probably had been the scene of busy labor for centuries. 



Upon the banks of the river at Naples are the burying grounds of the 

 modern Indian, in which have been found many stone implements inter- 

 mingled -with civilized manufactures, such as beads, knives, crosses of 

 silver, and other articles indicating traffic "with the French during, 

 probably, the latter part of the seventeenth and the first half of the 

 eighteenth centuries. Some of these articles are shown in Fig. 28. 



The above are all in the private collection of Richard H. Keener, esq., 

 of Naples, 111., who first gave the writer information relative to the 

 former exj)loratiou of mounds in the vicinity. The pottery exhumed 

 from this ancient cemetery shows that it was the common burial-place of 

 the race that built at least a part of the mounds, while the above and 

 similar articles of French manufacture show that the same place was 

 used as a burial site by the modern Indian. The same reason that 

 prompted these ancient races to select this locality as the resting-place 

 of the dead caused our own people to locate their cemetery within a few 

 hundred yards of the ancient one and upon the same ridge, just as the 

 modern city occupies the ancient village site, and the highways of travel 

 follow the ancient trails, the bones of races, separated by thousands of 

 years, in time mingle together and molder into common dust ! 



Fif!, 29. Pictographs on slab from rock-shelters near Naples, Til. 



Though not immediately connected with this subject, yet possibly the 

 work of the same race who built the Naples mounds, attention is 

 called to foot-prints and other marks on a limestone slab found in a 

 rock-shelter on the east side of the Illinois Eiver, about 10 miles below 

 Eagle-pipe mound. This slab originally formed a projecting shelf in the 

 rock-shelter, but is now broken off and stands on its edge at the opening 



