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pottery, and stone implements, which do not differ 
essentially from the contents of other Indian 
mounds, have been placed in various museums of 
the country, principally in that of the Valentine 
Museum at Richmond, Virginia. 
Henson Cove, under Sugar Top Mountain, is not 
one of the wild Fork coves, but being at Garden 
Creek you will often go there for the sake of the 
pleasant walk through the woods and past the little 
farms, where the catbird and the thrush sing to you 
along the way, and for the sake of the friendly peo- 
ple who live there. As you go along in the fresh 
morning, the air perfumed by the wild grapevine 
draping the tree above your head, the wild roses 
blossoming along the slopes, white azaleas on the 
edge of the woods, ripe strawberries hiding some- 
where near in the grass, as you go along, the warm 
summer sun drawing the fragrance out of all sweet 
things, you decide that there is no better walk than 
that to Henson Cove. 
One of the joys of the road is the complete recov- 
ery of one's senses. In the city you have no use for 
anything but eyes and ears, and not for the finer 
offices of those. But in the open — how many deli- 
cate sounds attest the unsuspected register of the 
ear ! Day by day you hear new cadences in the tree- 
tops, in the shrubs and the grasses. Voices, silent at 
first, grow audible, sometimes you almost hear the 
flowers sing. And the eye, recovering from the 
dust and glare of the streets, sees finer tones of color, 
detects delicate movements in the leaves and in the 
