Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-03-11
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GgohooIeAL DscOvSRrIs-Tosus o. TIE wzsr.
In The Republican Wilmington We hnd an article
On the Geology Of tie Miami country, which has
much Of interest. The Wrier - speHEiCg # the Geo
logical remains GA Todd's Fork ofihe IIlie MIana-
After speaking Of fragments of primitive rocks. sill
foand IN this region, tho writer proceeds TO ssy-"In
d,gging wells and eXcsy atIny the earth near Whining
n, beds of Pest have been discovered az tls depth
Of twenty feet from the suri1ce. ,nd charred wood and
parts of vegetable at o much greater depth, furnishing
3rdubiiable evidence that tho supsr.ncunhent sol has
been usado 10y the commissions Of Ihe elswents IN that
great change produced in tho order OF things, by the
deluge. The country shO' which Todd's Fork runs.
ia formed from the dIluyisl depusIte. but in many pla-
eos tho ailuyium is collected IN peat beds and furnish
90 the richest. aud mos, productive bottom lands in o
hio. Minerals are buried far beneath tho surface. and
the Land u much better fDr farming thsn for mining
Alsng the banks Of Tod's Fork northwest, and west
Of Wilmington. may be lonnd the hnmns skeleton de.
posted W. SONY vaults. made OF bat limestone. The
stony graves are built on elevated ground and bear eV-
.idence that the design in their construction was 10 eI-
eludo water from entering them. The earth does not
seem TO have been cTclVaied 20 depusite The dead. but
their tombs arc built on n level with the earth's 81
fnce. Comparing q human skull taken from one Of
these siony arches with one taken from a mound that
that had been raised near ten feet over the skeleton.
"a seems that the changes that have been wrsusht on
them. by time, are very SIMILAR. The skull taken fum
these rocky tanbs presents 10 the eve The appearance 1
Of bone that has been calcined by slow and continued
heat, d ssipaIing the fibre and leaving nothing to pre-
serve the IDENTITY Of the human GTB. bat the phos.
phato Of lime. IL has been suppo-ed by those Who
crnmined he contents ofthe mounds that are eyund m
various pisces between the Seioto and Mama Rivers
that they have been the repositories Of the human re-
mains for many ages"
ARsr r~smarking upon the rsmsins Of the Mammoth.
Ae writer says
II am led 10 conclude, thersfors. that The human be.
ings whose retains arc now reposing % these rocky
tcnements, were NJ least co-oval with the Mammoth
On his day o fn0iable e1isience, Perhaps long before
thai new soPulehre ofJOseph Of Arcmsshes was made
= part Of Aat sn doing and drsobeaicnt tribe Of IsrseI
hsd wandered over the hand aud over the 90. and Z
the very spoi on which now wtita. II
may be. he skull I now look upon aided In building a
somo Of hess stony arches over the last remains Of 8
chat peculiar Pooplc. d
Skull. vert thou Jew or Gontlei Vert thou q 9
nun Of letters with your songs and your mcuimsnd Or .
az untutored savagtl Didst thpu worship tbs true 6
Codi OF bow the knee 10 stocks and stoussl DiJ's Z
ihou c-t pork o. the soculenf- uice ~ the green bsrbI J.
Alas thou hsrd'st me not Well. 7 too may one day o.
be like thee. A hgu-ani years msy pas into forget Y
and Oblivion and nv tonguslsss Jaws and d
,sethed and wOrn-oaien skull fnsy remain o. q last
ingcnnEfsvidence q former race .
u = even 20. They who nov glory in youth. o,J "a
iesuty. snd wealth. a thousand years hence msy 2
ave heir skulls porsd over ~ Gsologisis odd Anu r
uafiats. o. muH bs doubtful 10 what race or n3tor r
belonged