THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS. 47 



years. The followiug extract from the recorcU gives their names and probably the 

 fullest account of the conflict which we shall ever possess: 



" Some went to the East, and the Tallegwi killed a portion. 



"Then all of one mind exclaimed, AVar! War! 



" The Talamatan (not-of-themselves) and the Xitilowan [allied north-people] go 

 united (to the war). 



"Kinnepeheud (Sharp-Looking) was the leader, and they went over the river. 

 And they took all that was there and despoiled and slew the Tallegwi. 



"Pimokhasnwi (Stirring-about) was next chief, and then the Tallegwi were much 

 too strong. 



"Tenchekeusit (Open-path) followed, and many towns were given up to him. 



"Pagauchihiella was chief, and the Tallegwi all went southward. 



"South of the Lakes they (the Leuape) settled their council-fire, and north of the 

 Lakes were their friends the Talamatan (Hurons ?)." 



There can be no reasonable doubt that the AUeghewi or Tallegwi, who have given 

 their name to the Allegheny River and Mountains, were the mound-builders. 



This supposition briugs the pressing hordes to the northwest of the 

 Ohio niound-bnilders, which is the direction, Colonel Force concludes, 

 from the geographical position of the defensive works, they must have 

 come. 



The number of defensive works erected during the contest shows it 

 must have been long and obstinate, and that the nation which could 

 thus resist the attack of the northern hordes must have been strong in 

 numbers and fertile in resources. But resistance i)roved in vain ; they 

 were compelled at last, according to the tradition, to leave the graves of 

 their ancestors and flee southward in search of a i)lace of safety. 



Here the Delaware tradition drops them, but the echo comes up from 

 the hills of East Tennessee and North Carolina in the form of the Cher- 

 okee tradition already mentioned, telling us where they found a resting 

 place, and the mound testimony fnrnislies the intermediate link. 



If they stopped for a time on New Kiver and the head of the Holston, 

 as Haywood conjectures,^ their line of retreat was in all likelihood up 

 the valley of the Great Kanawha. This supposition agrees also with 

 the fact that no traces of them are found in the ancient works of Ken- 

 tucky or middle Tennessee. In truth, the works along tlie Ohio River 

 from Portsmouth to Cincinnati and throughout northern Kentucky per- 

 tain to entirely different types from those of Ohio, most of them to a. 

 tyi)e found in no other section. 



On the contrary, it happens precisely in accordance with the theory 

 advanced and the Cherokee traditions, that we find in the Kanawha 

 Valley, near the (tity of Charleston, a ver^' extensive group of ancient 

 works stretching along the banks of the stream for more than two miles, 

 consisting of quite large as well as small mounds, of circular and rectan- 

 gular inclosures, etc. A careful survey of this group has been made, 

 and a number of the tumuli, including the larger ones, have been ex- 

 plored by the representatives of the Bureau. 



' The Bark Record of the Leni Lei ape. 



'^ Nat. and Aborig. Hist. Tenn., p. 223. — See Thomas, "Cherokees probably mouud- 

 "builders," Magazine Am. Hist., May, Ifr'-^l, p. 398. 



