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Show “< + - Rthniie aoe = ds - THE PRESENT STATE OF Another curious set of Indian works are found within six miles of Chilicothe, on Paint Creek, the accurate description and drawings of which are given in the Archeology. Here the great wail encloses a hundred high relief, and on . In- . dian monaments at Grave Creek, near the mouth of the Monongahela, says; “In one of the tumuli, which was opened about twenty years since, sixty copper beads Of these I procured ten.—They were /were found. made of coarse wire—haminered out—cut at unequal it (their Says the writer; “ Along the Ohio, some of mapee’now kind the pottery) is equal to any thing of ves tured.’—* It is wellglazed_or polished ; aud the COpand r of silve ornaments Many sel well shaped.” wells were dug through the Many d. foun were per hardest rocks. e, tumulus near Chilicoth A crucible was found ina hal that USq.- of Williams, Esq which is now inthe hands o ¢S, se tho with heat It will bear an equa | degree of place. Ff Wee MAE ; . : : “V7 h oh 7 ISRAEL, side a Pntia ee . ine Icmale ‘naments found three large circu- for a sword bel they are composed of copper, averted: weit The fronts of them are slightly thiek con» With a Gepression, like a cup, in the cen tre d measure two inches and a quarte r across the fac a f alee On the back side, opposi te the depressed a pena a copper rivet or nail, around which are e , ve plates,by which they wer e fas ten ed to the leath. es me smal] pieces of the leather were found | in elween the plates of one of the bos « N “the: side of the body was found a plat ses.» e of silver, which = pears to havébeen the upper part. ofa swo rd scabbard- : 5 : . 3 9g it Is SIX i eeof silver, \ plate of copper, heads of «pears, Yc. of the same metal, as well as of medals of copper.” A minister of Virginia, writing shall bere be added. ataas Ops Sses, ers in different places. These contained human bones, and such articles as the following; “urns, ornaments ra} hints of them . In removing a large mound in Marietta bones of a : ; # person were found. : “ Lyine n2 immed lately over, or on ying ne ~ exnpelpap $> 4 + A stone mound was discovered in the vicinity .of Licking river, near Newark, Ohio; and severa! oth- to indications that their improvements were equal be those of Israel when expcelied from Canaan; as will Seveseen by any who will peruse the Archeology. ae yf bones, denote that a great people, and of some degree of civilization in ancient days dwelt liere. unacancient American inhabitants were not wholly maby are There quainted with the use of metals.”?>. the front face. | closure of sixteen acres. the wails ike the other. In a “sacred enclosure” are six mounds. ‘Lhe immense labours of this-place, and cemeteries filled with human ‘They were soldered together in an awkward ‘lensths. | manner—They were incrusted with verdigrise; but ‘This fact shows that these | the inside was purecopper. AND — ————— How used in glass manufactories ; and appea; oi the same materials. Ppears made s a stan’ pipe is noted as found six feet in the alluvi brim of which isis Curtously wrousht jn ‘ ~ ss arta; , the and ter acres; the wall twelve feet in height, with a ditch about twenty feet wide. [t has an adjacent en- to the Antiquarian Society relative to the ancient JUDAH fe 3 inches in length and two inches in breadth and one ra weizhs ay ens ey eee pes no ornaments or figures, as) three longitudinal 5 é ridse ses, which probabl y pond with the edges or ridges of the sw as J { \ J ‘ ha V e been Sword itself wa 4¢ fastened ? to o but{< ‘ reed) cor ets, the holes of which yet remain by three or four rl V in the sil] ver. _ © Two or three broken pieces ofa copper tube, were also found, filled with iron rust. These pieces, , f, from their appearance, compose ie lower end of the scab bard, ard, n near the point of the swor word Po 6s ifs d.< Se le sword sign of the as discovered, except the Noappea r mentioned. Ppcarance. of ear thé feet waswe for ind a piece of = at eRe es shape From its it a “Opper rp ; 2 WeIeR- t ingg three ounceie s. plumb ,"or fo ran mb, ae ae 3 ornament, pears as to have one is a circular crease, or groove, fornear tyin is round, two inches and a half in | lg each€ inch end. in diameter €, and Copper, pour native n the cracks ofbetwe er length, halfaiyn inch at mall pieces rer \Y j| He sword; it seemstd | 4 2 , the scabbard 9 2) ae a 4 |