Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-01
American Antiquities.

considered IN connection with the hlCrogl lyphIc
rocks which ever since the settlement of Ohio
arrested attention on the Sciota river, (and
which were necessarily blasted off in making
track for a railroad, rs well as the prevalence
of the celebrated " Mounds" themselves, are
circumstances which lead IA correspondent OF
the Cleveland PlHindcalcr to make the follow.
ing remarks:
From unaHswcrabc facts and statistics, it is
evident that the great valleys of the Ohio and
Mississippi wcrr once the abode of mighty
nation--civiizcd and rcfncd-warlikc aud
brave-dcsccndan of those mighty nations
to whom | have alluded, and who settled in
this country long before the appearance Of the
Saviour on the earth
Near Lexington, Kentucky, are the remains
of an ancient catacomb, formed in a solid rock
Of limestone. This curiosity WAS discovered
il the year l11G, by the early settlers Of that
country. The mouth of the cavern was care
fully concealed with stones which ON being
removed, opened into cave of Immense mag
mitudc
The sides Of this spacious apartment were
found, upon examination, to he cut into inches
or compartments, occupied by figures repre-
scntng mon. BY further investigation these
figures were discovered to be mummics-pcr-
sons preserved by the art of cmbalming, and
IA"'"'''" S'''o vi lc'lcct'on cIu'i 10 that
known at any time among the Egyptians and
~" "'r po"' !" '''i l"'V '''iS "rt was Pr"c-
ticcd by the people. three Thousand four hun
drcd and scvcmty-fvc years previous to this
discovery in Kentucky. The catacomb was
capable OF holding two thousand subjects.
NS""' ,"',' Is '""'a W! on '!e Oh'o' nearly
'"c,'y '''l'S "cIow " "o"Sh river another re-
cave, with smooth perpendicular walls, and
level floor. The walls are covered with hicr-
og|yphic figures, cut in solid stone, and are
well executed. Among them are representa-
tions Of animals unknown to the present gen
Grafton. This cave is ono of the greatest GU,
rositics on the Ohio, and is connected with
dark, dismal cavern nearly the same size,
which is located directly above it, and which
is accessible through chimney like aperture.
When w. view the ancient mounds and Tu-
null Of the West, We are lost in Tonder, in
view Of the number, magnitude az the OBJ
scurity of their origin. There ale several
hundreds of these works in the valleys of the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and some of them
arc found to be filed with thousands of human
skeletons, indicating that they were place of
deposit for the dead They also bear the Gp.
pcarancc OF having been contiguous to some
large and popuous city.
Many strange and curious antiquities have
been, from time to time, ,eXhumcd from these
mounds and is 1t not significant, that in
great majority of instances there exist re-
morkablc resemblance between these relies
found in the nineteenth century, and articles
which were known to have been used among
the Romans, Grccians and Eryptans. before
the days of Christ?
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