Archological History of Ohio the Mound Builders And Later Indians
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Black Hawk s grave is between the two groups; it is even smaller than the others. B. E. 12, in. It is rather straining a point to adduce such evidence as this in attempting to prove a recent origin for the large mounds in which no modern articles have been discovered. Under the skull at the bottom of a mound five feet high in Loudon County, Tennessee, was an engraved tablet of stone. " The engraved characters on it are beyond question letters of the Cherokee alphabet said to have been invented ...* * * about 1821. " Yet the mound, in 1881, " had been covered by a cluster of trees and grapevines as long ago as the oldest settler in the locality could recollect " ; and one of them " stated that he had cut trees from it forty years ago. " B. E. 12, 393. It is not very clear what we are expected to infer from this paragraph unless it be that the mound was erected as late as 1821. But it is as easy to believe that Se-quo-yah, in construct- Iron from an Indian Burial Place. 459 ing his alphabet, used marks resembling some that another person had formed, as to think he would invent a series of signs or char acters utterly unlike any others ever thought of.
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