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Show 22 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN8. thor also quotes Mr. William A. Adams as describing, in a letter to Professor Silliman in 1842, some figures on the surface of a sandstone rock, lying on the bank of the Muskingum River. These figures are mentioned as being engraved in the rock and consist of tracks of the turkey, and of man. ROCK CARVINGS IN WEST VIRGINIA. Mr. P. W. Norris, of the Bureau of Ethnology, reports that he found numerous localities along the Kanawha River. West Virginia, bearing pictographs. Rock etchings are numerous upon smooth rocks, covered during high water, at the prominent fords of the river, as well as in the niches or long shallow caves high in the rocky cliffs of this region. Although rude representations of men, animals, and some deemed symbolic characters were found, none were observed superior to, or essentially differing from, those of modern Indians. Mr. John Haywood mentions ( The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, Nashville, 1823, pp. 332,333) rock etchings four miles below the Burning Spring, nearthe mouth of Campbell's Creek, Kanawha County, West Virginia, These consist of forms of various animals, as the deer, buffalo, fox, hare; of fish of various kinds; u infants scalped and scalps alone," and men of natural size. The rock is said to be in the Kanawha River, near its northern shore, accessible only at low water, and then only by boat. On the rocky walls of Little Coal River, near the mouth of Big Horse Creek, are cliffs upon which are many carvings. One of these measures 8 feet in length and 5 feet in height, and consists of a dense mass of characters. About 2 miles above Mount Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, on the north side of the Kanawha River, are numbers of characters, apparently totemic. These are at the foot of the hills flanking the river. On the cliffs near the mouth of the Kanawha River, opposite Mount Carbon, Nicholas County, West Virginia, are numerous pictographs. These appear to be cut into the sandstone rock. See also page 225, Figure 148. BOCK CARVINGS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Charles C. Jones, jr., in his Antiquities of the Southern Indians, etc., New York, 1873, pp. 62, 63, gives some general remarks upon the pictographs of the southern Indians, as follows : In painting and rock writing the efforts of the Southern Indians were confined to the fanciful and profuse ornamentation of their own persons with various colore, in |