168 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
and various articles used by savage nations. Otherwise we 
whites, were more ignorant, if possible, of the origin and 
uses of these mounds, than we are. They had not even the 
shadow of tradition to give them the smallest light on the 
subject. All me) signee of them is derived from a very few 
obvious facts, the rest is spatalenon drawn from slight 
probability. Very feapiclicl y, yo As. 
, MORTON. 
Wheeling, Virginia. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
I. Domestic. 
1. Prorest of Mr. leew Sey bert, in Siedigation of his 
claim to the discovery of Fluoric acid in the drodite 
(Brucite of Col. Gibbs, Maclureite of Mr. Seybert), in 
reference to a passage in the Memoir “on the miseny 
&c. of Patterson, and the Valley of Sparta,” &c. bys 
Thos. Nuttall, with the reply of the latter. 
Remarks by the Editor. 
As Mr. Nuttall happened to be present with me, when 
Mr. Seybert’s communication was handed in, I thought 
it but "ieokid to show it to him and to receive his reply. 
I will not deny that [ was actuated also by the hope of 
bringing this difference to a prompt issue, without having tt 
continued into a subsequent number. 
Letter of Mr. Seybert. 
Ra Trenton, Nov. 11, 1822. 
Absence from Philadelphia, until within a few days, pre” 
vented my having an opportunity, to peruse the second 
number of Vol, V. of your Journal of Science and Aris. 
