Reid.] 12 [Jan, 20 1871. 
Originally there were three rocks, but after the settlement of the coun- 
try, two of them were broken up and used in building a mill dam. At 
that time no one valued or took any interest in them, so no record was 
kept other than the fact that they were larger, and the figures more nu- 
merous than on the one remaining. This is in its original position, partly 
buried in the earth and so worn by the elements that the figures have be- 
come indistinct, and some perhaps entirely obliterated. 
The Indians that inhabited this part of the conntry at the time of its 
settlement by the whites, had no legend connected with the rock, nor 
had they used it for any purpose. The river bank at this point and for 
a mile above and below is nearly a perpendicular bluff, three hundred 
feet high, which is broken by a single ravine, and up this by a narrow 
winding path, apparently made by the same people that carved the figures 
on the rock, it may be reached directly from the river. A carriage road 
that leaves the river opposite Fredericktown, and winds around behind 
the bluff, passes within a few hundred yards of it. 
The rock is sandstone, of the same formation as that overlying the coal 
bed below; the surface is nearly flat, of an area of twenty by twenty-four 
feet, with a depression diagonally across, in a line with the three cups or 
hollows, the largest of which is one foot in diameter, the middle one six 
inches, and the other three inches, and about the same in depth. The de- 
pression or gutter and cups, are discolored, apparently by the blood of 
the victims that the inhabitants offered as sacrifices to their deity. 
The south end of the rock is three feet above the ground, with a hog- 
like figure carved upon it. The foot and hand prints are deeper and 
more perfect than the other figures, and in no way can I better describe 
them than they present the appearance of having been made by pressing 
the naked fect and hands upon soft clay, so perfect are some of the im- 
pressions. This is particularly the case with one foot-print, with a large 
toe on each side of the foot, and a hand-print with a thumb on both sides. 
The largest impressions of feet measure fourteen inches in length, 
eight inches across the toes, and four inches across the heel, the other 
foot-prints vary in size from that of a full grown man to a child five years 
of age; the foot-prints of syuirrels are numerous and cross the rock in 
every direction, not all that were on the rock being represented in the en- 
grvaving. A single track of an animal with claws, and one intended to re- 
present a buffalo track, but too smal] and no division of hoof, are also on 
the rock. The bird tracks are quite distinct:and six inches in length; the 
three links have apparently been made recently. The other figures are 
outlines, and whether made as a pastime by some Indian artist or as the 
hieroglyphic history of an Indian race, I leave others to determine. 
Two miles down the river from the rock is the site of an old Indian 
town and grave-yard, which covers an area of fifteen or twenty acres. 
There may be found pieces of sun dried pottery made of clay and minute 
fragments of muscle shells, pipes of the same material, and some of soap 
stone, axes of red 2jasper as hard as steel, arrow heads of flint, and cireu- 
lar flat sandstones, two of six inches in diameter and froin one-fourth of 
