I 4 6 EtOOK OF THE DAMNED 



language ever heard of in the eastern hemisphere there's nothing to 

 it but to turn non-Euclidian and try to conceive of a third "hemi- 

 sphere," or to accept that there has been intercourse between the 

 western hemisphere and some other world. 



But there is a peculiarity to these inscribed objects. They re- 

 mind me of the records left, by Sir John Franklin, in the Arctic; 

 but, also, of attempts made by relief expeditions to communicate 

 with the Franklin expedition. The lost explorers cached their rec- 

 ords or concealed them conspicuously in mounds. The relief ex- 

 peditions sent up balloons, from which messages were dropped broad- 

 cast. Our data are of things that have been cached, and of things 

 that seem to have been dropped 



Or a Lost Expedition from Somewhere. 



Explorers from somewhere, and their inability to return then, 

 a long, sentimental, persistent attempt, in the spirit of our own 

 Arctic relief-expeditions at least to establish communication 



What if it may have succeeded? 



We think of India the millions of natives who are ruled by a 

 small band of esoterics only because they receive support and di- 

 rection from somewhere else or from England. 



In 1838, Mr. A. B. Tomlinson, owner of the great mound at 

 Grave Creek, West Virginia, excavated the mound. He said that, 

 in the presence of witnesses, he had found a small, flat, oval stone 

 or disk upon which were engraved alphabetic characters. 



Col. Whittelsey, an expert in these matters, says that the stone 

 is now "universally regarded by archaeologists as a fraud": that, in 

 his opinion, Mr. Tomlinson had been imposed upon. 



Avebury, Prehistoric Times, p. 271: 



"I mention it because it has been the subject of much discussion, 

 but it is now generally admitted to be a fraud. It is inscribed 

 with Hebrew characters, but the forger has copied the modern in- 

 stead of the ancient form of the letters." 



As I have said, we're as irritable here, under the oppressions of 

 the anthropologists as ever were slaves in the south toward su- 

 periorities from "poor white trash." When we finally reverse our 

 relative positions we shall give lowest place to the anthropologists. 

 A Dr. Gray does at least look at a fish before he conceives of a 

 miraculous origin for it. We shall have to submerge Lord Avebury 

 far below him if we accept that the stone from Grave Creek is gen- 

 erally regarded as a fraud by eminent authorities who did not know 

 it from some other object or, in general, that so decided an opin- 



