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turing has been noticed. On the Susquehanna, near Lancaster, Pa., "In- 

 dian Eock" is a famous locality. There are two — " Big and Little." The^ 

 somewhat celebrated ''Pompey" or "Oneida Stone," discovered in Onon- 

 dago county, N. Y., is an object of antiquarian interest, but not of Indain 

 or prehistoric origin. It is a gneissoid bowlder. 12 by l-I inches, and 8 in 

 thickness. 



Near Barnesville, O., are interesting rock sculptures. The location is near 

 the line of the Central Ohio Eailroad, west of Barnesville. Two massive 

 sand rocks lie near the summit of a hill, and measure about ten by fourteen^ 

 feet. Their exposed surfaces bear elaborate sculpturing. The work is in- 

 taglio, corresponding to this clasfe of rock sculptures throughout the West. 



Kearly opposite Bufiington Island, in the Ohio, on the Virginia shore, 

 may be seen at the low water an extensive rocky surface, bearing rude rep- 

 resentations of animals, reptiles, birds, etc., including man himself. Of the 

 reptiles well depicted is a saurian over ten feet in length. The power of 

 the aboriginal sculptor has been elaborately displayed on this extensive 

 rocky surface — one of the most interesting I have examined in the VV^est. 



" Antiquity," a few miles below, is the site of another sculptured rock 

 which early attracted the attention of boatmen. Flood and vandalism have 

 quite effaced most of the characters. On the Guayandotte, Great Kanawha 

 Sandy, and elsewhere in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio and are inter- 

 esting sculptured rocks. To describe all would require a volume. Through- 

 out the great West and Southwest we find sculptured rocks, on mountain, 

 plain and estuary. There is a fine one in Georgia. It occurs on a granite 

 bowlder, the characters being well cut. Passing to the far west are some 

 rock carvings discovered on the face of a bold, lofty escarpment of coarse- 

 grained sand rock, over 100 feet in height, on the Upper Missouri. About 

 half way up are animals, symbols, pipes, implements, etc. 



Eecent explorations of the vast inter-mountain region of Colorado, Ari- 

 zona, etc., have resulted in the discovery of interesting sculptured rocks in 

 that part of our great domain. — JVeiv York Graphic. 



UTAH MOUNDS, 



We are kindly permitted, by a gentleman from this place, to make pub- 

 lic the following interesting letter from a friend at Payson, Utah Territory: 



Sir:— Your letter requesting me to furnish you information and a de- 

 scription of the Payson mounds, and the late discoveries made therein, I 

 have received, and I herewith forward to you such knowledge of these 

 ancient mounds as I possess. The mounds are situate on what is known as. 

 the Payson Farm, and are six in number, covering about twenty acres of 

 ground. They are from ten to eighteen feet in height, and from 500 to 1,000 

 feet in circumference. For years farming was conducted on the land,, 

 and fields of grain were planted, grew and were harvested to the very base 



