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Show 1836- 1837] F/ agg's Far West j$ a remarkable mass of limestone called " Tower Rock." It is perpendicular, isolated, and somewhat cylindrical in outline. It is many feet in altitude, and upon its summit tradition avers to exist the ruins of an antique tumulus; an altar, mayhap, of the ancient forest- sons, where " Garlands, ears of maize, and skins of wolf And shaggy bear, the offerings of the tribe Were made to the Great Spirit" In the vicinity of the cliff called " Tower Rock," and not far from Hurricane Island, is said to exist a [ 46] remarkable cavern of considerable extent The cave is entered by an orifice nine feet in width and twelve feet high; a bench of rock is then ascended a few feet, and an aperture of the size of an ordinary door admits the visiter into a spacious hall. In the mouth of the cavern, on the facade of the cliff, at the altitude of twenty- five feet, are engraved figures resembling a variety of animals, as the bear, the buffalo, and even the lion and lioness. All this I saw nothing of, and am, of course, no voucher for its existence; but a writer in the Port Folio, so long since as 1816, states the fact, and, moreover, adds that the engraving upon the rock was executed in " a masterly style." 41 * Since the remarks relative to " the remarkable cavern in the vicinity of Tower Rock, and not far from Hurricane Island," were in type, the subjoined notice of a similar cave, probably the same referred to, has casually fallen under my observation. The reader will recognise in this description the outlines of Rock- Inn- Cove, previously noticed. It is not a little singular that none of our party, which was a numerous one, observed the " hieroglyphics " here alluded to. The passage is from Priest* s " American Antiquities." " A Cavern of the West, in which are found many interesting Hieroglyphics, sup-posed to have been made by the Ancient Inhabitants. " On the Ohio, twenty miles below the mouth of the Wabash, is a cavern in which are found many hieroglyphics and representations of such delineations as would induce the belief that their authors were indeed comparatively refined and civilized. It is a cave in a rock, or ledge of the mountain, which presents itself to view a little above the water of the river when in flood, and is situated dose to the bank. In the early settlement of Ohio this cave became possessed by a party of Kentuckians called ' Wilson's Gang.' Wilson, in the first place, brought |