. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. to timebeen found, and fragments are so common that every student ofarchaeology can have a bountiful supply. Some of these fragmentsindicate vessels of very great size. At the Saline springs of Gal-latin I picked up fragments that indicated, by their curvature, ves-sels five to six feet in diameter, and it is probable they are frag-ments of artificial stone pans used to hold brine that was manufac-tured into salt by solar evaporation. Now, all the pottery belonging to the Mound Builders age,which I have seen, is composed of alluvial clay and sand
. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. to timebeen found, and fragments are so common that every student ofarchaeology can have a bountiful supply. Some of these fragmentsindicate vessels of very great size. At the Saline springs of Gal-latin I picked up fragments that indicated, by their curvature, ves-sels five to six feet in diameter, and it is probable they are frag-ments of artificial stone pans used to hold brine that was manufac-tured into salt by solar evaporation. Now, all the pottery belonging to the Mound Builders age,which I have seen, is composed of alluvial clay and sand, or a mix-ture of the former with pulverized fresh-water shells. A pastemade of such a mixture possesses, in high degree, the properties ofhydraulic Puzzuoland and Portland cement, so that vessels formedof it hardened without being burned, as is customary with modernpottery. The Professor deals very aptly with this industry of the aborig-ines, and concludes a very able disquisition on the Bone Bank inits relation to the prehistoric HIEROGLYPHICS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. The great circular redoubt or earth-work found two miles west otthe village of New Washington, and the Stone Fort, on a ridgeone mile west of the village of Deputy, ofier a subject for the anti-quarian as deeply interesting as any of the monuments of adecayed empire so far discovered. 30 HISTORY OF INDIANA. From end to end of Indiana there are to be found many other rel-ics of the obscure past. Some of them have been unearthed and nowappear among the collected antiquities at Indianapolis. The highlyfinished sandstone pipe, the copper ax, stone axes, flint arrow-headsand magnetic plummets found a few years ago beneath the soil ofCut-Off Island near New Harmony, together with the pipes of rareworkmanship and undoubted age, unearthed near Covington, alllive as it were in testimony of their owners and makers excel-lence, and hold a share in the evidence of the partial annihilationof a race, with the comple
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