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The D with a stroke through it I have shewn, in the discussion of the 

 Siberian inscriptions, to be an ideograph for Buddha ; and the final 

 character is a power of /. 



Thus the whole may be read as follows : 



No. III. 



Ka to go to ra mi to 

 do te u cJii ba te ri 2 j 

 fu ta ye ri mi itsu Biida It. 



Put into shape, it is : 



" Katogo Tora mito 

 Dote uchi bateri 2, 3 

 Fu taye ri miitsu Buda ri." 



In English, literally : 



"Katogo, Tora king 

 Mound house finished 2, 3. 



Twenty to end the ri six Buddha period." And in English idiom : 

 " Katogo, king of Tora, finishes the house of the mound, b 2 to end the 

 sixth ri of the period of Buddha." 



Here we have that priceless boon, a dated tablet. The Siberian 

 inscriptions shew the ri to have been a period of 300 years. The mound 

 being finished within 62 years of the sixth ri, it was 1738 years after 

 Buddha's death, that is, in 1261, A.D., at the time when Kublai Khan 

 and his Mongols were reducing Northern Asia. There is a great deal 

 of aboriginal history contained in this brief inscription from a great 

 mound, and, in my Hittite Track in the East, I have endeavoured to set it 

 forth as embodied in Mexican story, for the Tora of the tablet is doubt- 

 less one of the Mexican Tulas. 



There are two Ohio inscriptions. The smaller, furnished by Colonel 

 Whittlesey, of Cleveland, is on a nodule of kidney iron ore, surmounting 

 a human effigy. It was found in the bush in Plain Township, Stark 

 County, between eighty and a hundred years ago, and, when last heard 

 of, was in possession of Dr. Pease, of Manitou. The text is exceedingly 

 brief, consisting of six characters, very runic in appearance. With the 

 knowledge obtained from the texts already deciphered, it is easy to see 

 in the third and fourth characters a to and a ku. The first and fifth, 

 however, are new, and the Siberian documents must instruct us that 

 these F like symbols are variants oi fu : were their lateral strokes on the 



