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  GEOLOGY. 
  

  

  and 
  other 
  articles 
  of 
  personal 
  property, 
  with 
  the 
  dead 
  

   body, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  practice 
  of 
  savage 
  nations. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  suflicient 
  proof 
  existing 
  in 
  the 
  character 
  of 
  

   some 
  of 
  these 
  relics, 
  that 
  the 
  Indians 
  once 
  occupying 
  

   this 
  region, 
  both 
  the 
  Mound-builders, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  more 
  

   modern 
  tribes 
  which 
  succeeded 
  them, 
  had 
  an 
  intercourse 
  

   with 
  the 
  primitive 
  regions 
  of 
  Arkansas 
  and 
  Missouri, 
  

   where 
  the 
  crystalline 
  rocks 
  and 
  galena 
  abound, 
  and 
  that 
  

   some 
  of 
  these 
  have 
  been 
  fashioned 
  into 
  articles 
  of 
  orna- 
  

   ment 
  for 
  personal 
  decoration. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  my 
  fortune 
  to 
  encounter 
  the 
  gatena 
  

   in 
  other 
  circumstances 
  than 
  the 
  foregoing, 
  but 
  evidence 
  

   that 
  I 
  cannot 
  discredit, 
  as 
  to 
  its 
  existence 
  in 
  many 
  sit- 
  

   uations 
  in 
  larger 
  quantities 
  than 
  can 
  be 
  reasonably 
  

   accounted 
  for 
  in 
  this 
  way, 
  leads 
  me 
  to 
  attribute 
  its 
  

   presence 
  to 
  diluvial 
  action. 
  If 
  the 
  first 
  mode 
  of 
  transpor- 
  

   tation 
  is 
  inadequate 
  to 
  account 
  for 
  it, 
  none 
  other 
  than 
  

   this 
  seems 
  to 
  remain. 
  

  

  A 
  consideration 
  of 
  the 
  force 
  and 
  energy 
  of 
  this 
  agency, 
  

   in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  northern 
  drift 
  or 
  diluvium 
  so 
  

   called, 
  hereafter 
  treated 
  of, 
  and 
  the 
  materials 
  unques- 
  

   tionably 
  borne 
  hither 
  by 
  its 
  power, 
  will 
  probably 
  satisfy 
  

   the 
  most 
  incredulous 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  adequate 
  to 
  transport 
  

   all 
  the 
  lead 
  that 
  can 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  This 
  conjecture 
  is 
  strengthened 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  

   those 
  localities 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  said 
  most 
  to 
  abound 
  — 
  that 
  is, 
  

   in 
  Lawrence, 
  Noxubbe, 
  and 
  Tippah 
  counties 
  — 
  it 
  is 
  

   represented 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  intimate 
  association 
  with 
  the 
  

   cherty 
  pebbles, 
  the 
  well-known 
  detritus 
  of 
  the 
  drift 
  

   period. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  localities 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  galena 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  may 
  be 
  instanced 
  the 
  White 
  Clifls, 
  and 
  St. 
  

   Catherine, 
  in 
  Adams 
  County; 
  on 
  the 
  Bayou 
  Pierre, 
  in 
  

   Claiborne 
  County; 
  near 
  Lauderdale 
  Springs; 
  near 
  Phila- 
  

  

  