Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-01
MORE ANTIQUITIES.
A RemarkabEe Image DlscOv-
cred.
From the Nashville Pres and rines.l

From the Nashville Pres and TimeS.l
In connection with the researches
made by DR.. Jones, of our city, into the
antiquities of Tennessee, Mr.. McWhir-
ter, Of Charleston, East Tennessee, has
written a letter to gentleman in Frank
lin, which described remarkable image
exhumed, and also some remarkable
mounds. We make the following
! extract:
81" In tie Spring Of 1S45, was at
Paris the county seat of Henry county,
Tenn, and there saw and purchased q
sculptured image, found few days be-
fore at or near one of the largest mounds
thought TO be In the State, upon the
lands of Amos Mileken and Solomon
Hartsfeld Mr.. Hartsfeld was clean
ing out what he thought to be a sink
hole of its surrounding trees and vines,
and struck his hoe against and then dug
up the image.
There is a wall, rather in the shape
Of a horseshoe, mile or two in circuit
some places SO high as to be barrier
to stock-inelOsing two squares and
eight rectangular mounds. The main
square mound is about 100 feet high, the
other sixty or seventy, with large trees
growing over them, and in all there are
three mounds eight or ten feet high, and
fifteen or twenty across, composed of
fragments Of human bones the others
seem to be of clay-sand cement, tive and
half or three feet under the soil The
large square mound is fat ON the top,
and you might see it for miles away if
the trees were cut away at Its base, and
has been made to correspond with the
cardinal points exactly. The image
sculptured has been skillfully manufac-
tured from six-sided prismatic hour
spar, the prism being cut smoothly, hav-
ing a rough appearance from the shOd-
ding, though as smooth as glass. l took
1t TO Nashville to Dr. TroOst, State
also to Prof. Strickland, ar
chitect at the the Capitol, who examined |
it thoroughly, and gave their opinions
and certificates of its material and finish. |
Prof. Strickland said the measure was as
perfect as the modern measurement, |
fourteen by fourteen in sitting posture,
and that il must have been manufactured |
by race far superior to the Indians.
DR.. Troost computed the time by geo
logical research, from measuring the
soil on top of main mound to clay beds,
which is about three and one-halt feet
and so the one inch century gives us
forty-two centuries Who was it.
hundred years ago, lived in
that town? l have now a part of the
relic, the head and part of the body, and
should have had it entire but for the ac-
;ident Of having my house burned in
1851, and should have donated it to the
State. l had a great many euriosities
burned With my cabinet, and now take
title interest in such things. We have
IN old town site at, or little abose, the
mouth of the Hiawassee river, made, |
suppose, by the same people. The
pring freshet of 1867 washed the sur
ace from the island, and long rows of
graves, fire pots, teeth and other relics
ire fnund in abundance J found 4
-.ibia and Fibula six and half inches
onger than the present race, with the
)ones Of the feet and ankles thrown in,
md two superior molar teeth with four
angs and six apex, very singular thing
f human, and, found in the stone box
5rave, must have been human. have
he plan and chart of the Abian town,
he finders, the nearest family's certif-
ate. with county surveyors and clerks
certificates all complete in regard to the
eulpture, besides a good many Anti
Iuarian Societies have sent to see my
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