154 Finch on the Celtic Antiquities of America. 
In Messrs. Lewis & Clarke’s Travels there are noticed 
several of these rocks. 
Stone Idol Creek, on the Missouri, derives its name from 
three rude stones which the Ricaras, a tribe of Indians, 
worship. Whenever they pass by, they stop to make some 
offering of dress, in order to propitiate these sacred deities. 
On the bank of the Chissetaw Creek is a rock which is 
held in great veneration by the neighbouring savages, and 
is visited by parties who go to consult it as to their own and 
nation’s destinies 
and the Minnitarees resort to it for the purpose of propitia- 
ting their Great Spirit by presents, fasting and lamentation, 
which they continue for a space of three or five days. 
Under this class of Indian monuments may be arranged 
the figured rock at Dighton, in the State of Massachusetts, 
which has been described in various publications ; also the 
sculpjured rocks that occur in many parts of the American 
continent, at Tiverton, Rutland, Newport, Scaticook, Brat- 
tleborough, Ohio, &c. &c. 
[tis to be regretted that a manuscript of the late Dr. 
my of Arts and Sciences, and contains an account of many 
of Me 5 remains, has not yet been published. 
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