188 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations. 



The Reverend Mr. Harris, of Massachusetts, ha* 

 lately favoured the public with some additional observa- 

 tions concerning the design of these works, and con- 

 cerning the people by whom they were erected*. But 

 this gentleman's hypothesis on the latter subject is not, 

 in any essential respect, different from that which the 

 Editor of this Journal published, several years ago, 

 viz. first in 1787, and again in 1796t. 



Editor. 



43. Some time ago, I was in conversation with a Mr. 

 Nathaniel Brittain, living in Mount-Bethel township, 

 on the topic of some of our American antiquities. He 

 told me, that a Mr. Gaston, and another person, whose 

 name I have forgotten, who were formerly his neigh- 

 bours, had emigrated to some of the western counties 

 of this state (Pennsylvania), and a few years since paid 

 him a visit, when he was informed by them, that, at 

 some salt-lick, which afforded a small quantity of brack- 

 ish water (I think he said on Gaston's land), undef 

 a belief, if they were to dig a hole to some depth into 

 the earth, a greater quantity of salt-water might be ac- 

 quired, they, accordingly, dug down some depth, when 

 they came to the side of a rock, from whence the water 



• Journal of a Tour into the Territory North-West of the Alleg- 

 hancy Mountains, made in the Spring of the year 1803, Sec, Sec. 

 Boston: 1805. 



t See Observations on certain parts of Natural History, &c., 

 &c. London: 1787; — and Papers relative to certain American 

 Antiquities, &:c., &c. Philadelphia: 1796. 4to. 



