The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-31
Mr.. Francis w. Doughty'a Great
Scientific Discovery.
HIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES
In Various Parts Of Massacliusctts,
Connecticut, New Jersey, rcnnsyl.
vania, and In tho Immediate vicini.
~ OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tablets
Brought to Light Hundreds OF Fcot
Below tho Earth's Surface.

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held Mt tho socicty's rooms, lOl East
Twentieth street, Now York, n paper OF
peculiar interest was read BY Mr.. Fran.
els Worcester Doughty, coin collector
and numismatic writer, announcing u
series OF archaeological discoveries made
by him in tho "drift" in various parts
OF Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Now Jcr.
soy and Pennsylvania, but principally
OF Long Island, in tho Immediate vicin-
ity OF Brooklyn.
Accompanying the address was an
exhibition OF 4 number Of the objectsio
question, which. were taken at depths
varying from n few feet below tho sur
face Of the ground to 200 feet, the latter
being from various railroad and other
cuttings whore the drift has been cx-
posed; also from the opening for Brook
lyn's great sewer, which run for two
miles and moro through drift deposits
undisturbcd since glacial times.
il Mr.. Doughty's claims prove to DO
well founded this discovery is certainly
OF great scientific interest. In the
course Of his address he exhibited 4
number OF objects OF a purplish slate
carved in the form o. tho human head
and various animals, both OF existing
and prehistoric types. Also objects
made OF cast iron. One OF these, repre-
senting n decr's head, was remarkably
perfect, and had q horn welded in tho
proper place. There were also exkib-
tied Il number OF. curiously shaped tab
lets, somo Of baked clay, carved and
painted, others Of n mixture OF iron and
clay, known to %scicnc. rs clay iron
stones, and ono large one which was
covered on L side with q substance
claimed to DO parchment or skin and
painted. On all these tablets were pie.
lures representing various scenes, TO-.
gethe- with certain marka, which the
speaker predicte | would, III his opinion,
DO ultimately determined to be either
hleroglyphics or inscriptions in some
heretofore u~nrecognized language. One
carved plate o: ordinary brown stone
was shown, taken from the drift ut Bay
Ridge, Which bore tho figure OF Il
bearded man, with the arms amputated
n Ia the Venus Iii Milo, and u horses
head thrown against the breast.
Some OF the heads exhibited were
manifestlv those OF Indians; others bore
strongly mat ked Caucasian features and
were bearded. One wac startling in its
resemblance to Assyrian portraiture,
and others still closely followed the pc
culiar cranial outlines OF the heads de-
picted on the monuments OF the ruined
cities OF Palenque. Uxma!, ETC., in Mex
leo and Yucatan.
1t was further stated that tablets had
qeen taken from tho drift having into
rior layers OF clay sometimes painted,
upon which human heads and scenes
are depicted. One particularly alluded
to bore uponit certain marks precisely
similar to the profile cuts to be found
upon the oldest Roman Coins.
Photographs OF recognized prehistoric
stone implements were also, exhibited,
which had been taken from various
depths in tic DRIFT.
But the most important part OF the
address was that which went to show
the comparative relation between the
objects discovered and the oldestknown
coins. AS is well understood by all
numismatists, the earliest coina OF the
world bear certain symbolic representa-
tions OF human and animal forma, con-
stituting the totem, or tribal marks, OF
the various communities which issued
them.
The most ancient OF all these marks
is TIE colossal human head, represented
both singly rs the sphinx and doubled rs
the Janus. Upon all specimens taken
from the drift excepting only the tools,
the speaker claimed that the human
head is to he found depicted in one or
tho other OF these forms.
4 carved stone representing q %collosal
head in profile with a pyramid along
side OF it wa exhibited; also a smaller
specimen OF the same kind. Among the
symbols found upon.th tho clay and stone
objects taken from the drift also to be
found upon archaic coins was mention
ed the sphinx, Janus, ship, human.
headed bull. horse-head, serpent, two
serpcnts facing, lions facing, two human
heads facing, turtle, birds head, water
fowl, busts, jugats, sheep, wolf, elephant,
dog, sea shell and dolphin.
\ large line of ancient Roman and
other coins was exhibited, all having
cuttings in the edge Of the planchets,
which it was claimed were not mere ac-
cidents rs heretofore supposed, but in
tended to represent the human mouth
with small holes bored in propce rela-
tive position for the eyes, the whole
making 4 representation OF the human
face in profile, following out the SYM
bolic idea upon the objects taken from
the deep deposits Of the drift.
The worship OF the colossal head, the
speaker claimed, is OF the most ancient
origin, and he proceeded to show that
1t had obtained i'll Egypt, among tho
Romans, Gauls, Britons, and the build
ers OF tho ruined castles i'll Central
America and Peru, predicting that time
would show that the Old Man OF the
Mountains in New Hampshire was not
4 natural formation, but n archmolical
monument Of the highest interest, em-
bodyin2 tho symbol OF the sphinx and
pyramid cut i'll the rock by a prchisto-
rio race which Inhabited New England
previous to the glucial epoch and the
deposition Of the drift.
Attention was further called to the
existence upon the earliest coins OF
Rome OF the same marking which occur
upon tho objects taken from the DRIFT.
These markings have never been de-
scrlbcd, having heretofore been be-
loved to be OF accidental occurrence.
While not hazarding the positive state.
ment that they have a lingual signif-
cameo, tho speaker stated it as his belief
that such was the case, and called ntten-
ton to the fact that many OF the speci-
mems upon which they occur were us
perfect as on the day OF mintage, which
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