Kain on Caves. 409 
Farther up French Broad, near Newport, isa very large mound. — 
It reposes on a very level and extensive plain, and is itself the 
largest I ever saw. It is thirty feet high, and its base covers 
half an acre of ground. As it ascends from its base, there is 
a slight inclination from a perpendicular on all sides, and the 
upper surface is as level as the rest is regular. From the great 
size of this mound, its commanding situation, and the mystery 
which veils its history, it is a most interesting spot of ground. 
There are many other mounds of this description in the State 
of Tennessee, but I have not visited them. 
Though not immediately connected with this subject, I take 
markable projection of the rock divides the back part into two 
stories. This grotto, whose walls are hung with ivy, and the 
bluff crowned with cedars, and surrounded by an ‘aged forest, 
on which’ the vine clambers most luxuriantly, viewed from the 
ds slowly around it, and reflects its image, is 
more than beautiful: it is even venerable. But what renders 
it most interesting to many visiters, is a number of rude paint- 
as tradition reports, left on it by the Che- 
rokee Indians. These Indians are known to have made this 
‘cave a resting-place, as they passed up and down the River 
jntings are still distinct, though they have 
They consist of 
of birds, 
river which win 
representations of the 
fishes, &c. They are a 
respect, the paintings on Paint gs 
Much has been said of the objects of curiosity in the country 
north of us; and I took the liberty to describe some of them 
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