58 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTK. [VoL. V. 



left they would be ke, ki forms. The second and the last character are 

 conventional forms of the tree, ku ox -go. Thus the reading of the six 

 symbols is : 



No. IV. 



fii ku to kic fu ko. 

 In better order : Fuku Tokufii ko. 



" Fuku, the child (son) of Tokufu." 



The names are significant in Japanese, Fuku meaning "the fortunate 

 one," and Tokufu "the place or law of virtue, power, or profit." The 

 latter name seems to connect the chiefs with the Attakapas, who, at a 

 later period, occupied parts of Louisiana and Texas. 



The other Ohio inscription I received a photograph of from Professor 

 Hilder, of St. Louis, in 1882. The stone on which it is was found in 

 Brush Creek Mound, in Muskingum County. It is unique as an American 

 record, both as regards the form of its characters and the direction of its 

 writing, but has its analogues in Siberia. The document begins at the 

 top of the left hand column. There the first group contains the parallels 

 te, de combined with the sJii symbol, and these together constitute the 

 compound dzu, tsii. Below them is the short line, denoting a vowel or 

 aspirate ; and below that again comes a rounded v symbol, fu or bu. 

 The next group contains an evident te, de in the convex curve, and the 

 enclosed dot may stand for Jii in hitotsu, one, while the lower curve is 

 another /•'/^ According to Cypriote and other analogies, the succeeding 

 figure is a power of /; and the two dots below are to be read not as 

 numerals, but in rebus style, as fii in futatsu, two. The three curves 

 beneath must be separated into a s/ii form and the two parallels te^ 

 together furnishing the compound tsu. 



The first character on the right is the ;;// of the Grave Creek Stone. 

 Under it is the tci, to of the Yarmouth Rock, a dot taking the place of a 

 straight line. It is possible that the dot may be the numeral one. The 

 succeeding line with another dot gives one ten, followed by two dots 

 and a fu character on its side, furnishing two twenties. After these 

 comes the itsu of the Grave Creek Tablet ; and the li or ri of the left 

 hand column is repeated. We are now in a position to read the whole 

 inscription, which runs as follows : 



No. V. 



tsu i fu te hi fu li fu tsu 

 mi to (i), i-io 2-20 itsu li. 



