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and W. B. Fairchild, Esqs., of Xenia, Ohio ; Col. B. L. C. Wailes, of Wash- 

 ington, Mississippi ; J. H. Blake, Esq., of Boston ; Thomas Reynolds, M.D., of 

 Brockville, Canada West ; Arius Nye, Esq., and Charles Sullivan, Marietta, 

 Ohio ; Henry Howe, R. Buchanan, Joseph Clarke, Erasmus Gest, jr., and U. 

 P. James, Esqs., of Cincinnati ; J. E. Wharton, Esq., of WheeHng, Virginia ; 

 Daniel Morton, Esq., of New York ; L. K. Dille, M.D., of Cedarville, 

 Ohio ; Charles O. Tracy, of Portsmouth, Ohio ; Prof W. W. Mather, 

 Jackson, Ohio ; Rev. W. B. Stevens, Athens, Georgia ; Hon. T. H. Clingman, 

 North CaroUna ; Ashel Aylesworth, Granville, Ohio ; P. N. White, Esq., 

 Circleville, Ohio; C. J. Orton, Lower Sandusky, Ohio; Lieut. John H. Allen, 

 now of Easton, Md. ; T. B. Hunt, Esq., of New Haven ; Wm. F. Clemson, Esq., 

 of Chillicothe, Ohio ; and Joseph Sullivant, Esq., Columbus, Ohio. 



And while rendering these acknowledgments, it is but proper to express the 

 obligations which the authors of these investigations feel themselves under to 

 gentlemen in the various Atlantic cities, who, if they have not been able to add to 

 the number of facts here presented, have nevertheless by their thorough appreciation 

 of the subject, friendly encouragement, and disinterested aid, extended in various 

 ways, facilitated this new attempt towards the elucidation of the antiquities of our 

 own country. To the learned and venerable President of the American Ethnological 

 Society, Hon. Albert Gallatin, the closing years of whose long, active, and 

 useful life have been closely and successfully devoted to researches in the wide 

 field of American Ethnological Science, are our grateful acknowledgments espe- 

 cially due. His assistance and enlightened approbation have had a controlling 

 influence in sustaining and carrying on these investigations. To John R. Bart- 

 LETT, Esq., of New York, Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the Ethnological 

 Society, distinguished for his zeal and energy in organizing and promoting his- 

 torical and ethnological research, we cannot sufficiently express our obligations. 

 His assistance, in a variety of ways, has been of value, especially in directing 

 public attention to the importance of a subject, the extent and bearings of which 

 were but imperfectly understood. 



Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, of Burlington, Vermont, whose disinterested exertions 

 have mainly contributed to the appearance of this memoir in its present form, 

 has kindly examined the following chapters and given them the benefit of his 

 sound and critical judgment. To Prof. Edward Robinson, D.D., and to Prof. W. 

 W. Turner, both of New York, and both officers of the American Ethnological 

 Society, are we also indebted. The gentleman last named has supervised 

 the memoir, and his suggestions have been deferred to with a readiness implying 

 a confidence in his critical abilities, which is shared alike by the authors and by 

 tlie public. 



