The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-28
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Messrs. Editors Of The Dispatch: NY
residence being but about fourteen Iliss
from the locality OF the Row famous I" Hai !.
fax wall, rode over to-day TO lnspec. !.
Tar myselY. and now, immediately upon my
return home, proceed to give you the result
NJ nv observations: The site OF the wall IS
IN the side oil. q gently-sloping bill and some
distance from the foot OF the hill. did not
And fine wall as fully uncovered as ! eX-
nected. The top Of it is exposed TO ti,e
ienrth oi over sixty feet, but the enas
nave been but slightly examined. III
tho middle the excavation, on pom
s;des of the wall, extends to the deptn, l
Ivas informed, OF nineteen feet. NO Dottofn
RI fbe wal. has. a. least with any certainty,
heen discovered. My first impression, uc-
cidedIy. upon getting a full! view OF the
structure. was that it Is natural, not arm arr
cioI. and closer inspection coDtirmed.tnis
view OF il. There are portions which pear
a startling resemblance to human masonry
but the deeper parts had not to my eye tnas
annearapce. And there are certain lrregu
Iarities I'm the course and genera aspect VI
the wall which decidedly impressed me
with the conviction that it is oxac:iy "nat
Professor Campbell, with admirable saga
city, considering tue slender data ne nao "
go upon, pronounced IL in all proDaDillty 10
be. A discovery was. however, maue Ia.e
week OF relic, which, at nrst tno.Sh''
seems strongly TO favor the theory oi hu:
man workmanship. At the very Dottom OF
The excavation curiously-shaped earthen-
WIRE flask was dug up. It is beautHuily
Glazed inside and out. there being sma'i
hole broken in it, by means OF which the
INSIDE glazing can be Inspected. speak
from the description given me by otners,
the article baying been taken TO Hali1aH
| Courthouse ths being toIrt-day) 1of eA-
hihition there. or course the nature
Of the wall will ultimately be Determined
from other data. II it be finally settled oy
comnctent authority the internal
structure OF it.and by further explorations
20 IN lis ey;ent-that the wall Is natufaI
production, then, OF course, we Shall nave TO
concede that the flask by some means was
deposited where it was found in the course
OF some past but now unknown eXplora-
tions. An expert geologist could easily sec-
tie the question as to the origin OF the wall,
and it is to be hoped that some such compe-
| tent Judge may soon visit and lnspect H..
| The quartz rock OF which the wall Is COM
Dosed has Embedded in it numerous Jumps,
| from the size Of hazfenut or large pea
down to mnuter particles, OF brilliant
silyer.li like ORE We were informed that
gentleman who had visited the place SAID
that a like ore imbedded in similar rock
found on his land had been pronounced td
be nickel. 1 send you small fragment
White quartz rock like That OF the wall
save the Embedded mineral above men
toned, is thickiy strewn over all TINS sec
tion OF country. In some localities man!
| snecimers are found DrOfusely stratibed bI
a srayish congloncrate OF comminute1
| mica With sand. Fl. A. Brown.
rive return thanks for the specimen