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the inference that they were deposited there since the mound was erected : but the 

 one with which the sharpened bones and hieroglyphical stone were found, was in a 

 decayed state. Being in the centre and rather below tlie level of the surrounding 



ground, it was no doubt the object over which the mound was erected. I have a 

 part of the skull ; the remainder of the skeleton was destroyed by the diggers." 



The position of the skeleton with which it was found, as also the other circum- 

 stances attending the discovery of this relic, leave little doubt as to its authenticity. 

 It was discovered in December, 1841. The material is a fine-grained, compact 

 sandstone, of a light brown color. It measures five inches in length, three in 

 breadth at the ends, two and six tenths at the middle, and is about half an inch in 

 thickness. The sculptured face varies very slightly from a perfect plane. The 

 figures are cut in low relief, (the lines being not more than one twentieth of an 

 inch in depth,) and occupy a rectangular space four inches and two tenths long, 

 by two and one tenth wide. The sides of the stone, it will be observed, are 

 slightly concave. Right lines are drawn across the face near the ends. At right 

 angles and exterior to these are notches, twenty-five at one end, and twenty-four at 

 the other. Extending diagonally inward are fifteen longer lines, eight at one end 

 and seven at the other. The back of the stone has three deep, longitudinal 

 grooves, and several depressions, evidently caused by rubbing, — probably produced 

 in sharpening the instrument used in the sculpture. 



Without discussing the " singular resemblance which the relic bears to the 

 Egyptian cariouch" it will be sufficient to direct attention to the reduplication of 



* From a drawinor by H. C. Grosvenor. 



