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G58 — Fruch Bn the Celtic Antiquitics of Amerien. 
A small rocking stone occurs at Ashburnham, in the 
same Siate. 
In New-Hampshire there are two; one at Andover, 
weighing filteen or twenty tons, and the other at Durham. 
is was a short time since a very splendid rocking stone, 
weighing between fifty and sixty tons, and so exactly pois- 
ed, that the wind would move it, and its vibrations could be 
plainly seen at some distance. But, two years ago, a 
party from Portsmouth visited it, and after several hours of 
labor succeeded in moving it from its position. A proper 
feeling on the part of the persons who effected this mischief, 
would cause them to restore it to its original place. e 
rock is forty five feet in circumference and seven in thick- 
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5. Tumuli or Barrows, are found in every part of the im- 
mense expanse of American territory, from the Lakes of 
Canada to the Mexican sea, from the shores of the Atlantic, 
to the borders of the Pacific ocean, and they may be con- 
sidered merely a continuation of the same monuments which 
extend from the icy promontories of Kamschatcka, through 
the barren steppes of Tartary, the level plains of Russia, and 
all the northern regions of Europe. 
These tumuli were the simple repositories of the Celtic 
dead, the tombs of their warriors, the last resting place of 
those who were wise in council and valiant in war, and an 
enlightened people aout respect the remains of the former 
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blanch under a meridian sun, but in the western states this 
may be said to occur every day, and thus the vestiges of 
former times are effaced by the advance of the plough, and 
even Antiquarians have assisted to open and rifle these sanc- 
tuaries of the dead. Surely the land has been acquired 
cheap enough from its aboriginal possessors, and humani- 
vent dictate that their tumuli, their mounds, their camps, 
_ their altars, and the bones of their warriors should be al- 
lowed to restin peace. 
