Evening star., 1900-12-12

cement No man knows how they came
there. They may have been there for thou
sands of years. The builders. the Jackson
News thinks, were some prehistoric race
it could not be otherwise This structure is
supposed to be a continuation of the great
Chinese wall" which seems to begin be-
low Raymond, in the southern part of
Kinds county. and which is tracca BILE
through Copiah. 1t is broad enough to ac-
commodate two or three wagons abreast
and is one of the wonders of the world
mention OF this remarkable exhibit"
says the Hazlehurst Courier has elected
no little comment-in fact, has brought a
letter to Mr.. Watson from the warden Of
the United States penitentiary at Leaven-
worth Kan, and also a letter to Dr. T.
B. Birdsong from another distinguished
source, 1t being known that the latter some
Years ago investigated the matter. Mr.
watson, however says the Courier has
given the subject more patient thought and
gone over the ground more thoroughly than
any one else, and to him the Courier is in
cebted for the following facts:
He calls it the 'Brandywine stone WALL
and says this wonderful and massive struc-
ture or parts of structure of masonry done
IN stone which has withstood the ravages
OF time for perhaps many thousands of
years, still stands an enduring relic of a
prehistoric civilization and a knowledge of
the art of building not inferior in many
respects to the present day. These stone
pulIdlnSs lie, for the most part, buried in
the earth in the southeastern portion of
Claiborne county, and lying against the
coplah county line, on the slopes overlook
ing the valley of the Brandywine creek
from the west side.
These walls run from northeast to south
west They are built of white or grayish
| white, stone of immense size, weighing
from two to three tons, measuring from six
TO TO elght teet IN length and three feet wide
| py Two rect thick These blocks or slabs
are laid in very fine quality Of cement
and as perfectly as brickwork The Joints
are perfect and very close.
At one place the wall is exposed by the
earth being washed away to a width of
| Sixty feet and length of ninety feet This
hearth
quarried for domestic use to a depth of
three layers of slabs, which is six feet. a
width OF tWenty-four feet or eight blocks
and length of twenty-five blocks, or $50
ieet: The length of this wall as indicated
by the Groupings is about 900 feet
AT another place about 800 yards away
from the place just mentioned is a wall
jutting from under a slope for a distance
OF nearly 1900 feet This stonework Is ex-
posed in great many places over an area
of four miles
THE sides and angles of the blocks of
stones are so perfect that they resemble
pressed brick. The tops of these walls are
perfectly horizontal and without regard to
the unevennesS of the earths surface The
seams between the tiers are perfectly
straight, and each block of stone is perfect
- itOi i4"'ti'sAi AZ po.illoil, anu THESE Diochs
are smoothly dressed on the edges and ends,
while the broad surfaces are rough show
ing a broken surface brought down to a
level plane, but not dressed. They are held
so firmly together by the cement that it is
with great difficulty that they are broken
up.
"A personal inspection Of these great
structures as they lie partly buried in the
earth would relieve the minds OF the most
skepical Of all doubt of 1t not being the
| work of the hands of man.
In all that Is above mentioned in con-
nection with numerous caVings-in of the
earths crust which represent the existence
of underground caverns, abundant evil
dence is found to bear out the theory of the
existence of great buried city in that To-
cality.
"The informa ton above given Is vouched
for by other parties who have visited the
scene in recent years, and bears out the
theory advanced by Mr.. Watson. Truly
there is work for the scientists here"