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t^ese strata, which seem to indicate a difference in the 

 time of inhumation. 6. The existence of infant bones 

 among them. 



But on whatever occasion they may have been made, 

 they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians J 

 for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the 

 part of the country where this barrow is, went through 

 the woods directly to it, without any instructions or en- 

 quiry, and having staid about it some time, with expres- 

 sions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they 

 returned to the high road, which they had left about 

 half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their 

 journey. There is another barrow much resembling 

 this, in the low grounds of the south branch of Shenan- 

 doah where it is crossed by the road leading from the 

 Rockfish gap to Staunton. Both of these have within 

 these dozen years, been cleared of their trees, and put 

 under cultivation, are nmch reduced in their heighth, 

 and spread in width, by the plough, and will probably 

 disappear in time. There is another on a hill in the 

 Blue ridge of modntains, a few miles north of Wood's 

 gap, which is made up of small stones thrown together. 

 This has been opened and found to contain human 

 bones, as the others do. There are also many others 

 in other parts of the country. 



Great question has arisen from whence came those 

 aboriginals of America ? Discoveries, long ago made, 

 were sufficient to show that the passage from Europe 

 to America was always practicable, even to the imper- 

 fect navigation of ancient times. In going from Nor- 

 way to Iceland, from Iceland to Groenland, from Groen- 

 land to Labrador, the first traject is the widest: and 

 this having been practised from the earliest times of 

 which we have any account of that part of the earth, it 

 is not difficult to suppose that the subsequent trajects 

 may have been sometimes passed. Again, the late dis- 

 coveries of Captain Cook, coasting from Kamschatka 

 to California, have f>roved that if the two continents of 

 Asia and America be separated at all, it is only by a 

 Harrow stFait. So that from this side also, inhabitants 



