THOMAS.) 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



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tbe so-called "pigmy graves" about Sparta, ill tlie same state, which 

 excited so much interest and surprise niauy years ago, when they were 

 discovered. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 

 PAYETTE COUNTY. 



TIIK HIIDDLESON I.\CL( )SIIRK. 



This work, situated on tlie tariii of Mr. A. ITuddleson, across the 

 Kanawha river from Mount Carbon, is shown in Fig. liS7. It consists 

 of an inclosure circular in 



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form 1,34-1: feet in circumfer- 

 ence, or about 430 feet in 

 diameter, and is located on 

 smooth bottom land above 

 the overflows of the river. 

 The vsurrounding wall, which 

 consists of earth like the 

 surface soil about it and a 

 mixture of mussel shells 

 similar to those now found 

 in the Kanawha river, was 

 formerly some 3 or 4 leet 

 liigh, but has been reduced 

 by long cultivation to a mere 

 trace. 



At « is an ash pile 4 feet 

 high surmounted by a long 

 flat rock. At h was found a 

 box-shaped stone cist at the 

 depth of 1 foot below the i* !■■ -^t -n 

 surface. Rude stone hoes, 

 flint lance and arrow heads, tisli darts 

 were found scattered over the ground. 



Kock etchings are numerous u])on tlie smooth rocks near the princi- 

 pal fords of the river. Most of tlicse are covered by water during the 

 freshets. Others are found in the niches or long narrow clefts in the 

 rocky cliffs. Although rude representations of men and animals and 

 some probably symbolic ligures are coiiimon licie, none were n])scrv('(l 

 superior to or essentially different from tliosc of modern Indians 



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111(1 orher stone iiiiplcments 



On the summits of nearly all of the pioiiiineut bluffs, si)urs, and 

 high points of this region are heaps of large angular stones. Unlike 

 the loose cairns of the plains of the northwest and elsewhere, these 



