Finch on the Celtic Antiquities of MAmericc. 159 
It seems probable that if these untutored nations wished, 
in a more particular manner, to perpetuate the memory of 
some one, who was near and dear to them, who had given 
his nation important councils ip peace, or raised the fame 
of his country in war, then they thought the mound of earth 
too humble a covering for his remains, and raised high a 
pile of stones, to mark to future times, thé tomb of their fa- 
vorite chief. In the Celtic language, these were called 
airn. 
J. C. Atwater mentions them as occurring near Newark, 
and in the counties of Perry, Pickaway and Ross. 
In Dr. Dwight’s travels in Connecticut, there are noticed 
two of these stone tumuli, which appear to have been erect- 
ed over offenders against the law. ; 
Adair, in his History of the North American Indians, sdys, 
“in the woods we often see innumerable heaps of small stones 
in those places, where according to tradition. some of their 
distinguished people were either killed or buried. ‘There 
they add stone to stone, still encreasing every heap, as 
lasting monument and honor to the dead and an incentive to 
great actions in the survivors.” 
In the same volume it is said, “ the Cherokees continue to 
Taise and multiply heaps of stones, as monuments for their 
deceased warriors.” 
Mr. Jefferson says they occur in Virginia ;—they are al- 
80 Mentioned by other historians, and tradition relates that 
the Indians in passing these tumuli still add a stone to the 
fap to shew their respect to the memory of the heroes 
of other times, the ancient Celtic chiefs. : 
ese monuments of the aborigines, carry with them un- 
doubted evidence of their Celtic origin, and although few 
ire at present described, yet when the country is fully ex- 
plored, many other remains of the same character may be 
observed. Moderns build their temples in crowded cities, 
buildings made by the hands of men. ‘They worshipped 
them in the SE and silence of retired groves and woods, 
