The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-05-19

as permanent, and erected q number Of
additional furnaces.
In 1868, the Federal army came back,
and again occupied the north bank of the
river. The saltpetre men destroyed all
| the boats along the river, and went on
with their digging and boiling in fancied
security, imagining that the vandal
horde could never get across But it was
Rosecrans and not Buell. this time, and
one morning the people about Nickajack
awoke and found "a regiment Of Federal
cavalry right in among them. The sol
! dlers paid their respects 70 the cave, and
left traces of their visit which appear to
this day. They core down the hoppers,
| smashed the kettles, burned the sheds,
| spilled the precious saitpetre into the
creek, and made themselves generally
| useful. The dirt diggers and bureau
officers clambered up the mountain side
ata killing pace, and have meyer been
seen since. At present Niekajack rests
| In peace.
THE ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN
In one of the northeastern counties of
! Georgia, and less than q hundred miles
! from here, Is a natural curiosity called
| from Indian tradition, the Enchanted
| Mountain.
The mountain is net large, and there
| get on the top, when human tracks, or
impressions in the solid rock, which APP
pear to be human tracks, are seen.
How these almost human tracks came
to be impressed Oh the rock of this noun
tain, is one OF the many mysteries of this
| mysterious land OF ours. There were
! oygat r,afIr traditions apaorr bo
in regard to this mountain, but none OF
them are satisfactory, and it probably
never will be known who it vas that left
their tracks upon the summit of the En-
chanted Mountain. One Of the Indian
traditions is curious, for it shows that
they had vague idea of Noah's flood
before the advent Of the white man.
The story had been handed down among
the ahorigines chat it was the landing
place OF the great canoe, after the deluge,
and the tracks we've made by the peo-
pie in the canoe, as they stepped out
upon the rocks, which had been made
soft by the long inundation.
One Of the tracks, and the largest one,
is seventeen and a half inches in length
and seven aud three-fourths inches wide
Unlike the others, it has six toes THIS
must have been Noah S track, and if
there was anything in the Mosaic account
Of the flood concerning the size of Noah S
feet, We might have confirmation Of the
Indian tradition. The size Of the track
. would indicate that he wore number
eiehtcens.
There are one hundred and thirty-six
impressions Of feet and hands visible On
the face Of the rock. The smallest foot
track is four inches in length and of per
feet shape. Another Indian tradition is
that q great LATHE was once fought there,
and the large track with six toes Is that
Of the victorious commander. This is
essentially Indian as their ideas of men
tai greatness were circumscri5ed by phys
ical size. To be great warrior with
them was to be OF great size and strength.
They did not recognize the size or quail
ity OF the brain as having anything to dc
with it.
But who made these tracks upon the
Enchanted Mountain? IF it was human
feet, and at what age of the world? II
they were chiseled out by human hards,
Whose hands, and when? Alas that
the learning of the world amounts to Sc
little: for no man can tell.