or THE WESTERN COUNTRY. arg 
above or below the falls. There is a like inflance up the 
Tenaflee of a particular fpot, extraordinary for petrefadcti- 
ons, whilftnothing of the kind takes. place either above’ 
or below. 
The Bic-sones, found ata place called the Big-Bone- 
Lick, are now to be feen in the different mufeums of the 
ftates. It is unneceflary for me, therefore, to make any 
remarks on them. At P. Lewis, on the Miffiffippi, I faw 
a number of gentlemen who had travelled up the Miffouri : 
they faid, there are many of thefe bones to the weftward, 
and the Indians told them the animal! was ftill to be found 
farther weft. { 
The NATURAL MEADOWS cannot be accounted for: 
fome of them’ have, doubtlefs, emerged from the waters of 
the Miffifippi, which I prefume was an arm of the fea, 
fome diftance above the mouth of the Chio, Other of 
thefe meadows appear to have been lakes, the waters of 
which, in procefs of time, finding fome out-let, have be- 
come dry lands. But fome of thefe Prazres are high lands, 
furrounded by an extenfive timbered country, in many 
places much lower than the clear lands. Major Wyllys 
informed me that he had the moft unequivocal proof, from 
the appearances of rocks and other veftiges a little above the 
mouth of the Miffouri, that the waters of the Miffifippi 
had, in paft ages, flowed feventy feet higher than the pre- 
fent high-water marks. On the French Broad-River, a 
branch of the Tenaflee, ‘are perpendicular rocks, on which, 
more than one hundred feet above the prefent high-water, 
are artificial charafters of beafts, birds, &c. A Mr. Wil- 
liams, a gentlemen of reputation, affured me, that he had 
been at the place, and that’ there could be very little doubt 
of the characters being artificial, and that it was abfolutely 
impofhible that any .perfon' could get to the {pot on any 
Eez other 
