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illustrations from nature, by H. Lewis, from the Falls of St. Anthony to the Gulf of 
Mexico,” published about the year 1839 by Arenz & Co., Diisseldorf, Germany. One 
of the large full-page plates in this work gives a fine view of the bluff at Alton, with 
the figure of the Piasa on the face of the rock. It is represented to have been taken 
on the spot by artists from Germany. We reproduce that part of the blutf (the 
whole picture being too large for this work) which shows the pictographs. In the 
German picture there is shown just behind the rather dim outlines of the second 
face a ragged crevice, as though of a fracture. Part of the bluff’s face might have 
fallen and thus nearly destroyed one of the monsters, for in later years writers 
speak of but one figure. The whole face of the bluff was quarried away in 1846—47,. 
Fic. 41.—The Piasa petroglyph. 
Under Myths and Mythic Animals, Chapter xtv, Section 2, are illus 
trations and descriptions which should be compared with these accounts, 
and Chapter XxII gives other examples of errors and discrepancies in 
the description and copying of petroglyphs. 
Mr. A. D. Jones (a) says of the same petroglyph: 
After the distribution of firearms among the Indians, bullets were substituted for 
arrows, and even to this day no savage presumes to pass the spot without discharg- 
ing his rifle and raising his shout of triumph. I visited the spot in June (1838) and 
examined the image and the ten thousand bullet marks on the cliff seemed to cor- 
roborate the tradition related to me in the neighborhood. 
Fic. 42.—Petroglyph on the Tlinois river. 
Mr. McAdams, loe. cit., also reports regarding Fig. 42: 
Some twenty-five or thirty miles above the mouth of the Illinois river, on the west 
bank of that stream, high up on the smooth face of an overhanging cliff, is another 
interesting pictograph sculptured deeply in the hard rock. It remains to-day prob- 
