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V was a large pile of rocks, giving no evidence of ever having been 

 covered with earth. It was opened and some skeletons were found, 

 probably tbose of Indians killed in some attack on Harrodsburg. 



W and X are similar to V. 



The above list iuchides all the points of much interest in these two 

 counties. Nearly every spot mentioned has been examined, and the 

 relics carried off or destroyed. The great majority of those relics, such as 

 pijjes, arrow and lance heads, grooved axes, and celts, have been 

 plowed up isolated in fields all over the counties; but the largernum- 

 ber have been found on the farms contiguous to Salt Eiver. No shell 

 heaps have been noticed except at A, where the common mussel of Salt 

 Eiver seems to have been used for some purpose other than pottery 

 manufacture, perhaps as food. 



Nothing is known as to our caves or cliff shelters ha\'ing been used 

 for dwellings. A cave east of Danville, on the farm of Samuel Stone, 

 contained some human skeletons; but as the remains had been thrown 

 down into a sink-hole without other opening, and as there were no im- 

 plements, I suppose that the persons were Indians, or i>erhaps murdered 

 whites of a comparatively recent date, and not mound-builders. The 

 bones were in a good state of preservation. Nowhere in this part of the 

 State has anything resembling masonry been observed, to my knowl- 

 edge. 



As far as I can learn, no carving, engraving, or sculpture has been 

 discovered in those counties; but in the Deaf and Dumb Institution at 

 Danville, Professor Dudley, principal, there is a carved image or rather 

 bust of Aztec type, which was plowed up in Marion County, Ken- 

 tucky. Eock paintings and inscriptions are not found here. The dead 

 are discovered both in mounds and in isolated graves. Some contain 

 one individual, others more. It is diflicult to determine the position of 

 the bodies wlien interred, as the pressure from above and the trees 

 over them have forced them out of place. Some appear to have been 

 buried in a sitting posture, some were stretched out, and others evi- 

 dently lying on their sides. They we^e laid, in most cases, toward the 

 east, sometimes toward the west, and again in every direction like 

 spokes in a wheel. A few were placed in cists, others in earth only. 

 Generally only a few of tlie more solid bones were preserved. At one 

 point in Boyle County some arrow-heads were turned up by the plow, 

 but they were lost or tlirown away. No large places are known where 

 flint implements have been manufactured; but chipi)ings, evidently 

 broken off by mechanical means, show that arrow-heads have been made 

 in limited quantities. I am unable to learn whether or not the pottery 

 found at A had been made on the grounds. The presence of many frag- 

 ments, the 'quantities of decaying mussel shells, the balls of sand car- 

 ried from the river, and the proximity to suitable clay all render it likely ; 

 yet there are no places, that I could see, which ^ive any reliable evi- 

 dence of its manufacture. 



