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refrained from eating any kind of flesh, and held that mar- 
riage was sinful. They also believed that by practicing this 
kind of pure life, they could at last become so perfect, as to 
live without food ; that they would not be subject to diseases 
or death, could work miracles, and finally raise the dead. 
So strong was the belief of some of them in this doctrine, 
that one young man also lately died of debility, induced by 
putting in practice that article of their creed, which taught 
that man by faith and practice might learn to live without 
food, and thus become immortal. After his death, he was kept 
three or four days, in the belief that he was only in a 
trance, and that on the third day he would awake from his 
sleep, and arise a pure and perfect creature. This sect was 
not confined to Marietta, but they had adherents in the up- 
per part of this county, on the Ohio river, and also in some 
of the adjoining counties. It was 30 or 40 miles from Ma- 
rietta, where the young man made the experiment. 
** Antiquities, whether belonging to the Indians, those 
who erected our old forts, or to the French ?”’ 
The antiquities in this county, as far as [ am acquainted, 
all belong to that ancient race of men, whose memo 
perished from the face of the earth. You will have a de- 
scription of those in this neighbourhood in a short time, from 
Mr. B. Patnam.* About 20 years since, there was found 
on the sand bar, in the mouth of the Muskingum, a block of 
lead of several pounds weight, with an inscription on it in 
French, indicating that possession was taken of the country 
in the name of one of the kings of France—but whether it 
was Lewis XV. or XVI. I was not able to learn, nor the 
date of the inscription. It was destroyed several years since, 
and the lead melted. into balls. : : 
Fort Harmar stood on the west side of the Muskingum, 
at the mouth of the river.—But no remains of the fort are 
now standing, and a considerable part of the ground which 
it occupied has tumbled into the river, and been washed 
away. 
‘© Meteors, comets, eclipses, earthqnakes, tornadoes, oF 
pests, freshets, inundations, volcanic eruptions, extremes 
heat and cold, or other remarkable events 
No remarkable meteors have been noticed nai 
avery large and brilliant one was seen a few years ago, 
* See the first Vol. of the Archelogia Americana for a full account of 
these antiquities. Ed. 
