186" Miscellanies. 



few inches, and from which it could be moved only by the appli- 

 cation of a very considerable force. As thousands live within sight 

 of the noble Mount Washington, without attempting its ascent, and 

 other thousands almost within hearing of the thunders of Niagara, 

 who have hardly turned aside to see the prince of our mountains, or 

 the prince of all cataracts, it appears the less surprising that a logan 

 rock, almost within sight of the university of New Hampshire, should 



have remained hitherto unnoticed- 



C. E. Potter, Principal of the Portsmouth 



High School, Jan. 30, 1833. 

 To the Editor of the An. Journal of Science and Arts. 



16. JYotices of Wheeling, Virginia, by ''James W. Clemens; in 

 a letter to the Editor, dated Wheeling, May 21, 1832.— Wheeling 

 is a thrifty town, situated on the eastern bank of the Ohio River, in 

 the county of Ohio and state of Virginia. Its population is, at this 

 time, between six and seven thousand souls. 



Its latitude is 40° 15' N. ; its longitude 80° 10' W. from Green- 

 wich. The site on which the town stands, without doubt, once 

 formed the bed of the Ohio River, for evidence of this fact is con- 

 stantly presented, but a few feet below the present surface. 



The town is divided into two parts, the high and the low : the 

 high part of the town, was used by the aborigines as a cemetery. 



About three years ago, the workmen employed in excavating a 

 cellar, in this part of the town, discovered many relics of the In- 

 dians, such as bones nearly decayed ; and in the tombs with those 

 bones were found pots in a good state of preservation, and having 

 in them muscle shells and the bones of some small animals, as the 

 rabbit or squirrel. There were found, also, war axes of stone, toma- 

 hawks of a species of stone no where to be found in this neighbor- 

 hood, and also arrow heads of the very best quality of flint.* 



* Among numerous specimens of aboriginal relics in my possession, I find arrow 

 and spear heads of quartz, flint, hornstone and jasper : they were evidently shaped 

 by chipping or fracture; they have a channel or hollow around the base of the ar- 

 row or spear head, which appears to have been intended for a with or string to fast- 

 en the stone to the shaft. I have bullet moulds made of soapstone, with a regular 

 sprue, and holes for withs, to bind the two parts of the mould together ; pipes, made 

 of chlorite, pottery, or soapstone ; one of these, of chlorite, is in the shape of an owl ; 

 it is as large as a small bird of that family; -the tobacco was introduced through a 

 hole .in the back, and the tube was put in at the vent ; mortars of agate, hornstone 

 and jasper, with pestles of the same, thus anticipating modern improvements in ap- 

 paratus for analysis; ornaments of jasper, jade, hornstone, and slate of different va- 



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