624 illSCELLAXEOUS PAPERS EELATING TO ANTHEOPOLOGY. 



less held in high, esteem, because, in beauty of material, symmetry of 

 form, and excellency of manufacture, tbey far excelled all the products 

 of aboriginal fabrication. 



May we not suggest that the native, into whose ownership) one of 

 these crosses passed, endeavored with a flint flake to perpetuate his 

 recollection of this animal which, in his esteem, was not less remark- 

 able than the pale-faced stranger or his shining gift? We cannot re- 

 sist the impression that this equinal delineation was the work of an 

 Indian. 



THE GREAT MOUND ON THE ETOWAH RIVEE, GEORGIA. 



By Charles Whittlesey, of Cleveland, Ohio. 



Not having seen a detailed description of this mound, I made a visit 

 to it in behalf of the Western Reserve Historical Society in May, 1871. 

 It stands upon the north ^bank of the Etowah, about 2 miles below where 

 it is crossed by the Chattanooga and Atlanta Railway, near Cartersville. 

 Its form, size, and elevation are singular and imposing. It occuj^ies 

 tlie easterly point or angle of a large and luxuriant river bottom, a part 

 of which is subject to inundations. The soil is a deep, rich, black loam, 

 covering several hundred acres, which has been cultivated in corn and 

 cotton since the Cherokees left it about forty years since. 



I was compelled, by bad weather, to make the survey in haste. The 

 bearings were taken with a j^rismatic comj^ass, the distances measured 



Fig. 1. 



by pacing, and the elevations obtained with a pocket level. They are 

 therefore subject to the corrections of future surveyors. Its base covers 

 a space of about 3 acres, and stands at a level of 23 feet above low water 

 in the river. In great floods the water approaches near the mound on 



