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vicinitv, but obstacles, incidental to its situation, obliged them to 

 desist. JN ow, however, that the energetic American has acquired a 

 knowledge of these spots, so great in mineral wealth, and the accents 

 of the English language have been heard in the mountain gorges, 

 and on the plains, amid which such mineral wealth abounds, it seems 

 natural to anticipate that the war whoop of the savage Avill die away. 

 The Indian will disappear here as elsewhere, after witnessing in vain 

 the advantages of civilization and combined industry, and thus ere 

 long this formidable impediment will cease to baffle the exertions of 

 science and commerce, in turning to account so rich a deposit of 

 mineral wealth. 



NARCOTIC USAGES AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE 

 OLD AND NEW WORLD. 



BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., 

 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. 



(Continued from p. 264J 



Amid the endless variety which characterises the form of the 

 ancient Mound Builders' pipes, one general type is traceable through 

 the whole. " They are always carved from a single piece, and con- 

 sist of a flat curved base, of variable length and width, with the 

 bowl rising from the centre of the convex side. From one of the 

 ends, and communicating with the hollow of the bowl, is drilled a 

 small hole, which answers the purpose of a tube ; the corresponding 

 opposite division being left for the manifest purpose of holding the 

 implement to the mouth." The authors of tho " Ancient Monu- 

 ments of the Mississippi Valley," express their conviction, derived 

 from the inspection of hundreds of specimens which have come under 

 their notice, during their explorations of the ancient mounds, that 

 the instrument is complete as found, and was used without any such 

 tube as is almost invariably employed by the modern Indian, and 

 also by the modern perfume-loving oriental when he fills his chibouk 

 with the odorous shiraz or mild latakia. The modern pipe-head of 

 each has a large aperture for the insertion of the tube, whereas in 



