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served in persons who walk barefoot. The probability that they 
were caused by the pressure of an individual, that belonged to an 
unknown race of men, ignorant of the art of tanning hides, and 
that this took place in a much earlier age than the traditions of 
the present Indians extend to, this probability I say, is strength¬ 
ened by the extraordinary size of the feet here given. In an¬ 
other respect, the impressions are strikingly natural, since the 
muscles of the feet are represented with the greatest exactness 
and truth. This circumstance weakens very much the hypothe¬ 
sis, that they are possibly evidences of the ancient sculpture of a 
race of men living in the remote ages of this continent. Neither 
history nor tradition, gives us the slightest information of such 
a people. For it must be kept in mind, that we have no proof 
that the people who erected our surprising western tumuli, ever 
had a knowledge of masonry, even much less of sculpture, or 
that they had invented the chisel, the knife, or the axe, those 
excepted made from porphyry, hornstone or obsidian. The me¬ 
dium length of the human male foot can be taken at ten inches. 
The length of the foot stamp here described, amounts to ten and 
a quarter inches, the breadth measured over the toes, in a right 
angle with the first line is four inches, but the greatest spread of 
the toes is four and a half inches, which breadth diminishes at the 
heels to two and a half inches. Directly before these impressions 
is a well inserted and' deep mark, similar to a scroll of which the 
greatest length is two feet seven inches, and the greatest breadth 
twelve and a half inches. The rock which contains these inter¬ 
esting traces, is a compact limestone of a bluish-gray colour.” 
This rock with the unknown impressions are remembered as 
long as the country about St. Louis has been known, this table 
is hewn out of a rock, and indeed out of a perpendicular wall of 
rock. 
The garden of Rapp’s house was the usual flower-garden of 
a rich German farmer. In it was a green-house, in which 
several large fig trees, an orange, and lemon tree stood in the 
earth. Mr. Owen took me into one of the newly-built houses, in 
which the married members of the society are to dwell. It con¬ 
sisted of two stories, in each two chambers and two alcoves, 
with the requisite ventilators. The cellar of the house is to 
contain a heating apparatus, to heat the whole with warm air. 
When all shall be thoroughly organized, the members will alter¬ 
nately have the charge of heating the apparatus. Each family 
will have a chamber and an alcove, which will be sufficient, as 
the little children will be in a nursery, and the larger at school. 
They will not require kitchens, as all are to eat in common. 
The unmarried women will live together, as will also the un¬ 
married men, in the manner of the Moravian brethren. 
