Putnam.] 330 [January 6, 



and the Pacifick islands, that I refer this individual to that era of 

 time, and that generation of men, which preceded the Indians of the 

 Green River, and of the place where these relics were found. This 

 conclusion is strengthened by the consideration that such manufac- 

 tures are not prepared by the actual and resident red men of the 

 present day. If the Abbe Clavigero had had this case before him, 

 he would have thought of the people who constructed those ancient 

 forts and mounds, whose exact history no man living can give. But 

 I forbear to enlarge ; my intention being merely to manifest my re- 

 spect to the Society for having enrolled me among its members, and 

 to invite the attention of its Antiquarians to further inquiry on a 

 subject of such curiosity." 



The Original Inhabitants of America consisted of the same Eaces with the 

 Malays of Australasia and the Tartars of the North. By Samuel L. Mitch- 

 ill, in Med. Repos., Vol. 18, p. 187. (Trans. Am. Ant. Soc, Vol. I, p. 321.) 



" The information we derived from Messrs. Cassedy and Miller, of 

 Tennessee, relative to the human bodies found in a copperas cave, 

 near the Cany Branch of the Cumberland River, was very curious. 

 (Medical Repository, vol. xv. p. 14 7.) 1 * * * * * 



''The fabricks accompanying the Kentucky bodies resembled very 

 nearly those which encircled the mummies of Tennessee. On com- 

 paring the two sets of samples, they were ascertained to be as much 

 alike as two pieces of dimity or diaper from different manufactories. 



" Other Antiquities of the same class have come to light. Mr. 

 Gratz, of Philadelphia, the proprietor of the vast cavern figured and 

 described in the Medical Repository, vol. xvii, pp. 391-393, has, very 

 obligingly, sent to Dr. Mitchill other specimens of cloths, things 

 made of those cloths, and raw materials, dug out of that unparalleled 

 natural excavation. He forwarded, with the samples, a map of the 

 cave, substantially like that which we had received before from Mr. 

 Bogert; and confirming every thing therein stated. A parcel of 

 these articles, now in Dr. Mitchill' s possession, was accompanied with 

 the following note : — 



" f There will be found in this bundle two moccasons, in the same 



1 Dr. Mitchill here refers to an account similar to that in the preceding quota- 

 tion, and illustrated by figures of the " mummy " and of two kinds of the cloth 

 found with it. 



