ABSTRACTS FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Numerous correspondents of the Institution, in writing upon various 

 matters, frequently convey valuable information. It is the design of 

 this chapter to i)ut on record those statements of correspondents re- 

 specting archaeology that are not sufficiently long to form a separate 

 article. 



Barkley, W. F., writes that about 15 miles from Mount Pleasant, Pa.^ 

 are the remains of a burying ground, in which the dead are interred be- 

 neath piles of stone. 



Carruthers, Arthur, writes that in the western part of Am- 

 herst Townshij), Lorain County, Ohio, on the farms of Joseph liice,. 

 David Shevarts, and others, are sandstone rocks rising about 1 foot above 

 the ground and from 6 to 50 feet across the top. They belong to the 

 Waverly sandstone. The impressions of Indian moccasins, bears' tracks, 

 turkey tracks, and those of small birds are very plentiful. They do not. 

 all run in the same direction, but cross and recross one another. 



CouES, Elliott, mentions a cliff-house on Beaver Creek at its junc- 

 tion with the Eio Yerde, 40 miles from Fort Whipple, Ariz. 



Ferry, C. M., of Oneida, New York, mentions the opening of a. 

 . trench of buried Indians. Part of the bodies were in wooden coffins^ 

 (plainly indicating recent burial. Some of the dead had been wrapped 

 in blankets, and a child's moccasin was ornamented with glass beads. 

 Buttons and bricks also add their testimony to the fact that the ceme- 

 tery is not ancient. 



Flint, Earl. Eock inscriptions extend all along the summits of 

 the Cordilleras, from Bolivia to Mexico. They are similar in character. 

 At Telembela, in Ecuador, is a sacrificial stone, similar to that in Mexico. 

 A sculpture of a chief with a scepter in each hand, surmounted by a 

 condor, and standing on the prostrate form of a supplicant, was found 

 in Peru. This resembles very much the figure in the Palenque stone, 

 but it is coarser. At Samiapata, near the top of the declivity, sculptured 

 in relief, is a figure of a tiger. A little higher up is a similar one, more 

 massive, from which a double series of rhombs lead from the sculpture 

 to a kind of throne, supported on four feet of a bird of prey, surrounded 

 by a circular line of seats. These all join to form the body of the cross. 

 The toi^ is in shape a species of platform, on which are chiseled hemi- 

 spheric holes, one yard in diameter, communicating with one another by 



