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and /, making dzu, tsu. After the following no comes fu ; then the 

 vowel or aspirate ; then three dots before another fu, and two strokes 

 which stand for the number two. In the lower line the club denotes ta, 

 to ; but what follows is without duplicate in Mound-Builder writing. It 

 is neither Siberian nor Buddhist Indian, but in ancient Hittite, in Corean, 

 and in Aztec script, it would be an / syllable, which Japanese has not. 

 Next comes an imperfect sJii, followed by the well-known Indian and 

 Siberian equivalent for a fish, which is me, mi. To the right of the e'^'gy 

 comes another club, ta, to, and the common diamond symbol, ma, mo. 



We are now in a position to read the document. 



No. II. 



de ha na no me ha shi bn sJii se tzii no fiiye j fu 2 to li sJii me X to ma. 



In Japanese this is : 



DeJiaiia no Mehashi bushi sets?i no fuye j fu (tachi) 2 TorisJihne atome. 



"Dehana of Mehashi warrior seasons of number 3 twenties 2 Torishime 

 heir." 



Freely : " Sixty-two (is) the sum of the years of the warrior Mehashi 

 of the Dehana, the heir of Torishime." 



Mehashi in Japanese means "the quick"; and Tolishime or Torishime 

 is " the controller." As for the Dehana, I think they are the Tionon or 

 Tionontates, a Huron clan ; so that Mehashi, and his predecessor Toli- 

 shime, may have claimed kindred with the Nova Scotian Kuturade. The 

 arithmetical notation is purely Siberian. 



It is a long step from Massachusetts to Virginia. The Grave Creek 

 Stone was found in 1838 in the Grave Creek Mound, twelve miles below 

 Wheeling in West Virginia. It has three lines of writing. Beginning at 

 the left of the top line, there appears the ka of the Yarmouth Stone, 

 followed by a cross, ta, to. The third figure is ku, go ; and the fourth, a 

 St. Andrew's cross, is still to. Next comes the common r syllable, and 

 after it a 4 which is a variant of the fish me, mi; with another to to bring 

 up the rear. In the second line, the St. Andrew's cross is still to, do; the 

 obtuse angle convex is de, te ; the line is a vowel or aspirate/ and the 

 obtuse angle concave is dii, shi. This is followed by the bi, be of Yar- 

 mouth, and that by a limbed r syllable. The next characters are simple 

 numerals, 2 and 3 strung in a line. The third line presents bu or fu ; 

 then a cross with a short line attached. The cross is ta, to, and the line 

 is the vowel or aspirate. The r syllable follows; then comes mi, me; 

 and the next character is a combination of the vowel si^n with a ts form. 



