Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-09
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WONDERFUL NEUROLOGICAL
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Egyptian Temples. and -CeremOn
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Remnants of a Pre- Historic Race
: The New York World of Sunday ha:
a five-column letter from correspon'
dent at Santa Fe, which, if only half Of
it be true, will set all the ethnologic so
cieties and literary bodies throughout
ChristendOm agOg with wonder and
speculation. The letter purports to de.
scribe the adventures and discoveries Of
a certain plucky miner from the Rocky
Mountains, known as Mountain Jim,
who, in company with a man named
Tim Jennings, started from Denver
last September, in! search of a mining
country which should yield better for.
tune than that to which they had been
accustomed. Pushing forward day aft
er day, meeting. with constant disap-
pointments In their hopes of finding
paying lodes, they at last found that
they had gotten beyond the Colorado
and Utah boundaries, and had entered
upon country which wore so forbid
ding an aspect thateven their Indian
guides refused to accompany them fur
ther 1t appears, however, that al
though the country furnished neither
grass nor water, nor any living thing
save insects and reptiles the deviI-may-
care spirit which frontier experience is
apt to provoke, still drove them for
ward. They had both sworn to go on
until they found something, and on
they went, alone. Stumbling forward
into vast, arid waste, in which they
wandered for several days, they at last
found themselves imprisoned in a des-
ert more malignant still. The upshot
of it was that their mules died of starv-
alton, and the agony of thirst drove
poor Jennings mad; and that in an in
sane paroxysm he fell over a precipice
and was dashed to pieces. After endu-
ring Observation-Disclosures, MountainJim,
now utterly alone, and stumbling on
like man in dream, suddenly per-
ceived "a vast black gulf that seemed to
open down into the core of the earth;'
and while yet he stood, transfxed by
terror, the pulverized soil of the arid
mesa sank under his feet, and heslid
down two thousand feet, into valley
in the midst of the desert, forty or fifty
miles in width, inclOsed in an unscala-
Bile and unbrOken vertical rim. y! +
This valley was the scene of his re-
1zarkable discoveries.
Omitting his description of its beauty
md verdureand heads of cattle, we
Dne to the point at which the real eth
biological interest begins. He found
that the valley abounded at .inreryals
with the massive workmanship of hui
man hands invariably of stone; stone
couches, stone statues, stone tanks for
holding water, and huge stone roofs,
supported by great pillars of stone.'
Two stone causeways were also lined
with succession of stone houses, eX-
tending as far as the eye could reach,
none of which had any windows, while
all had the expanded wings of a bird
rudefy efiseled over the doorway. No
human being had as yet been seen by
our traveller; but while engaged in the
outer examination of one of these hous-
es, a startling cry broke out:
The cryswas instantly responded to
from both sides. Simultaneously every
DOORWAY was animated with darting
forIns. Unless than minute, ," says
Harvey, ''both ridges were thick as
with people. hardly knew
what to make of the matter at first; 1
lifted my hat and kept on the road.
The farther went the more fuss they
made; they were the most eXtraordina-
ry people. The men were half naked;
the women wore brilliant blue and red
tunics like, hung over one shoulder
and buttoned under the left arm, and
reaching down to the knees. The chill
dren hadn't rag. Still they didn't
look like Indians or savageS. Their
was a. cross between the
Indian and Mulatto. The women are
wonderfully well formed and goodlook-
ing. yz .sSE
A great commotion ensued, but no
attempts at violence; and presently by
signs our traveller began to parley with
them, the result of it all being that he
walked ahead of them, followed by a
number of guards, and by the whole
populace, for distance ofseveral miles,
when the party halted at a massive gat,
which opened and let the hunter and
his escort into vast court yard,
'shalf mile square," surrounded by a
stone wall. In the centre of the court
stood an edifice which excited his ut
most amazement, and which his de-
scriptiOn would indicate was strongly
If not exactly egyptian in character.
We quote:
ssThe enormous masses of stone of
which it was composed, and the majes-
tic appearance of its construction, were
such hs L (who had been sailor and
visited many American, English and
italian seapOrts) had not previously be-
held. The front was adorned with a
cornice and frieze, covered with figures
and hieroglyphics. A portico formed
of ten or twelve columns, in three rows
stood out from the front, the wings of
the temple extending on each side. The
shafts Of the columns were covered by
figures and hieroglyphics, raised (in
s6dsso relieuo). Prominent among these
figures was one, oft repeated, of the
head of a female, with cows ears-an
unmistak able resemblance to the Egyp-
tian sculptures of the goddess ISIS
The front of the doorway leading into
the interior, and the W alls, architraves
of the interior, were excessively en-
bellished with figures, emblems and
hieroglyphics, some of them of such a
nature that they materially assisted
him in his subsequent conclusion as to
the history of the people. His descrip-
ton ofaEcircular tracery upon the cell
ing, though not minute and exact EN-
ough to satisfy, would answer for a
general description of the drawing OF
the zodiac! 200
He was subsequently confined in a
room as prisoner, and thus confined
for two weeks. His captors had how
ever left untouched his revolver, which